Oil Production Platforms

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 December 1973.

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Photo of Mr Christopher Chataway Mr Christopher Chataway , Chichester 12:00, 10 December 1973

There have been intensive discussions with all those people about concrete platforms. The hon. Gentleman should remember that of nine steel platforms so far ordered, six have come to this country. There are very few places where there is sufficiently deep water to enable concrete platforms to be constructed. We have commissioned consultants to scour the entire United Kingdom with a view to locating those areas where this would be possible.