UK gas supplies secure for summer

GB gas demand is expected to be primarily met by supplies from UKCS and Norway this summer, with the balance secured from LNG, according to National Gas Trasmission

Cluster developments ‘can maximise oil and gas recovery from UKCS’

Researchers suggest developing a group of fields in reasonably close proximity to each other can enable economies of scale and lower development costs per barrel of oil

Scotland launches £4m oil and gas decommissioning fund

Industry reports suggest £15.3bn is forecast to be spent on the UK Continental Shelf until 2027

Upstream oil and gas emissions shot up 7% in 2017

Oil & Gas UK says this makes up around 3% of the country’s entire greenhouse gas emissions

First oil produced from North Sea development

The Garten field is producing more than 16,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day

Equinor buys 40% stake in giant undeveloped oil and gas field

It is estimated to hold 300m barrels of potential recoverable volumes of oil and gas

UKCS Oil and Gas mergers top $8bn this year

Merger and acquisition activity on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) has passed the $8 billion (£6bn) mark this year as confidence returns to the sector. That’s the suggestion from Oil & Gas UK, which says the recent increase in market activity in the basin is likely to help attract new investment in the next few […]

More than 200 North Sea rigs to close by 2025

More than 200 oil and gas platforms and close to 2,500 wells across the North Sea are scheduled to be decommissioned by 2025. That’s according to new information published by Oil & Gas UK and Decom North Sea. The groups say this will take place on 349 fields across the region, including six on the […]

New UK oil exploration maps released

New government-funded oil and gas exploration data has been made available for viewing. The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) released the results of the £20 million seismic programme to promote exploration activity in underexplored areas of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). The information published contains nearly 19,000km of new mapping, new gravity and magnetic surveys, […]

UK’s petroleum ‘could last 20 more years’

The UK’s remaining petroleum reserves could last for at least 20 more years. That’s according to a new report from the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), which suggests they could last even longer if additional undeveloped resources, ranging between 10 to 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe), can be matured. To date, a total […]