Video: Johan Sverdrup like you’ve never seen it before By Energy Reporter 28/08/2015, 10:29 am The Johan Sverdrup field Ever wondered how the North Sea’s mammoth find will pan out? Watch the video below. Johan Sverdrup is the largest North Sea find in 30 years. The project could hold as much as 2.9 billion barrels of oil and has an estimated cost of up to NOK 220billion ($26.80billion), of which the first phase is budgeted at NOK 117billion.