Oil and Gas Reserves

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Energy – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 June 1991.

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Photo of Mr Colin Moynihan Mr Colin Moynihan , Lewisham East 12:00, 17 June 1991

My Department's report to Parliament of April this year on the "Development of the Oil and Gas Resources of the United Kingdom"—the Brown Book—gives our latest estimates of reserves. They show that additions to reserves during last year kept pace with production during the year in the case of oil, and exceeded production in the case of gas.