Graham Stuart: The UK publishes data on the proportion of the oil produced from the UK’s Continental Shelf (UKCS) that is refined within the UK. Data on the proportion that originates from the Forties Pipeline System is not separately published but the Department estimates that exports from the Forties Pipeline System over the last five years (2019 to October 2023) average 89 per cent, which is broadly in...
David Duguid: ...%. As I have said, more than 200,000 jobs depend on the continuity of North sea energy companies. That workforce has developed world-leading specialist skills since oil and gas production from the UKCS began in the 1970s. About 90% of those workers have skills that can be readily transferred to renewable energy production, and in the growing carbon capture, utilisation and storage sector...
Graham Stuart: ...in their 2022 Emissions Monitoring Report, available here. Projected emissions for a small number of recent and new installations are based on operators’ emissions forecasts collected in the 2022 UKCS Stewardship Survey. Information about specific fields is commercially sensitive.
Lord Callanan: Due to the interconnected nature of gas pipeline infrastructure and the consequent mixing of UK continental shelf (UKCS) production and imports it is not possible to determine what proportion of indigenously produced gas is exported.
Andrew Bowie: ...Act 1998, to charge for regulating decommissioning of offshore oil and gas. The decommissioning of offshore oil and gas installations and pipelines on the United Kingdom continental shelf, or UKCS, is regulated through the 1998 Act, and the responsibility for ensuring that the requirements of that Act are complied with rests with my Department. Owners of oil and gas installations and...
Mims Davies: ...under the Paris memorandum of understanding on port state control. It is an important issue that some flag states do not have independent investigation bodies that may investigate accidents in UKCS. The marine administrations for the Isle of Man, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Gibraltar do not have independent investigation bodies, and therefore have difficulty in ensuring that safety...
Mims Davies: Health and safety standards for workers employed on offshore windfarms on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) are regulated in Great Britain by the Health and Safety Executive. The Energy Act 2004 vests rights to The Crown Estate to license the generation of renewable energy on the UKCS within the Renewable Energy Zone out to 200 nautical miles. In Scotland, Crown Estate Scotland is...
Mims Davies: The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2013 applies the provisions of the 1974 Act to a variety of structures on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) which are in designated areas by virtue of an order under Section 1(7) of The Continental Shelf Act 1964 in addition to the UK territorial sea. An offshore installation is a structure used...
Mims Davies: The specific installation is a mobile installation, specifically a jack-up drilling rig. It had been engaged in drilling work at a field on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) over 100 miles east of mainland Scotland. When that work was completed the rig was towed to the port of Dundee. The territorial sea is defined by The Territorial Sea Act 1987 which are waters adjacent to the...
Mims Davies: ...Britain) Order 2013, the agency responsible for the investigation of missing persons aboard offshore rigs in: UK territorial waters; the UK exclusive economic zone; and the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is the Health and Safety Executive. There is no legal definition of “international waters”. HSE is responsible for regulating the safety of individuals on offshore installations on the...
Lord Callanan: Great Britain has highly diverse sources of gas supply. These include pipelines from the UK and Norwegian continental shelves (UKCS & NCS), interconnection with the European continent, and three Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals, providing the UK with one of the largest LNG import infrastructures in Europe. The UK’s diverse range of sources of gas supply is a strength to the...
Lord Moynihan: ...for its impact matters in its own right. In that regard, despite the UK Government’s rhetoric couching it as an incentive for investment, make no mistake that the EPL is bad for investment in the UKCS. It confirms the UK’s existing reputation for fiscal instability and political opportunism with regards to oil and gas, having already drastically changed the UKCS tax regime rates...
Lord Callanan: Great Britain does not have contingent emergency storage reserves. The UK has highly diverse sources of gas supply, made up of supplies from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), our long-term energy partner Norway, and international markets via LNG and interconnectors to the Continent. Though gas storage provides flexibility to balance demand and supply of gas, it is not intended as a source...
Lloyd Russell-Moyle: ...and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of training times required to achieve basic certification to work in the offshore (a) oil and gas and (b) wind sector of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
Greg Hands: ...investment in the UK continental shelf is needed to support production and our security of supply. That is particularly important this winter, but it is also important in the longer term, because UKCS production can help to mitigate potential supply issues. When it comes to the sector itself, I heard nothing from any of the Opposition Front Benchers about whether they supported our...
Chloe Smith: ...potentially misleading to compare the maintenance figures for different operators in absolute terms. What is clear though is that there is a clear trend of an increase in maintenance backlog among UKCS operators. HSE’s focus is on how effectively operators risk manage their backlogs until they have dealt with them.
Chloe Smith: All installations currently operating on the UKCS have a safety case that has been accepted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Safety cases are required to demonstrate how a duty holder operating an installation complies with the relevant statutory provisions in relation to the hazards created by their work activities. HSE’s ongoing offshore intervention plan tests the validity of...
Alex Cunningham: ...the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2022 to Question 92626, how many planned maintenance shutdowns have been reported to the HSE by operators on the UKCS since 2015; and on what dates those shutdowns were reported.
Alex Cunningham: ...2021 to Question 80980 on Offshore Industry: Continental Shelf, what steps she is taking to ensure that staffing levels are not reduced below that required to safely operate installations on the UKCS.
Lord Callanan: According to the Oil and Gas Authority’s ‘UKCS Decommissioning Cost Estimate 2021’ report (copy attached), the total cost of decommissioning UK Continental Shelf offshore oil and gas infrastructure has reduced to £46bn[1] equating to a projected saving of nearly £14bn (23%) since the 2017 cost reduction target[2] was first established. With extant oil and gas licences which have not...