Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform written question – answered at on 12 June 2008.
Frank Field
Labour, Birkenhead
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many barrels of oil were produced from the North Sea in each of the last 30 years; and what estimate he has made of the number of barrels to be produced in each of the next 10 years.
Malcolm Wicks
Minister of State (Energy), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform
holding answer
The information requested is in the following table. Historical and projected data on UK crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) in tonnes have been converted into barrels assuming there are 7.5 barrels per tonne. Historical data are from http://www.berr.gov.uk/energy/statistics/source/oil/page18470.html while projections through to 2013 are from https://www.og.berr.gov.uk/information/bb_updates/chapters/Section4_17.htm; a compound annual decline of 5.5 per cent. has been assumed thereafter.
| UK production of oil and NGLs | |
| Million barrels | |
| 1978 | 405 |
| 1979 | 583 |
| 1980 | 604 |
| 1981 | 671 |
| 1982 | 774 |
| 1983 | 862 |
| 1984 | 945 |
| 1985 | 957 |
| 1986 | 953 |
| 1987 | 925 |
| 1988 | 858 |
| 1989 | 688 |
| 1990 | 687 |
| 1991 | 684 |
| 1992 | 707 |
| 1993 | 751 |
| 1994 | 949 |
| 1995 | 974 |
| 1996 | 972 |
| 1997 | 960 |
| 1998 | 994 |
| 1999 | 1,028 |
| 2000 | 945 |
| 2001 | 875 |
| 2002 | 870 |
| 2003 | 796 |
| 2004 | 715 |
| 2005 | 635 |
| 2006 | 574 |
| 2007 | 576 |
| 2008 | 539 |
| 2009 | 509 |
| 2010 | 484 |
| 2011 | 461 |
| 2012 | 437 |
| 2013 | 411 |
| 2014 | 388 |
| 2015 | 367 |
| 2016 | 346 |
| 2017 | 327 |
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