Scottish Oil and Gas Production
Key Findings
- Information on this topic together with readable explanation can be found at Scottish Energy Statistical Hubs Oil and Gas section.
- The East Grampian Coast is the key UK location for the Oil and Gas industry for the United Kingdom. Aberdeen and Peterhead serve as the hub for supporting the Scottish sector of the North Sea and Aberdeen Airport is the key heliport for crew transfer.
- In addition the Forties pipeline passes under the beach at Cruden Bay carries around 30% of UK oil production. The gas terminal at St Fergus is one of three main plants in the us that process natural gas from the Scottish and Norwegen sectors. St Fergus is made up of three plans owned by Shell, Total and Apache and process around 20% of the UKs gas demand.
- Oil and gas production fell steadily from 1999 until 2014 when 30 new oil fields came onstream and increased of production efficiency lead to an increase in production. Since 2019 production has been decreasing year on year
Taken from Data on the Scottish Energy Statistics Hub
Notes
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20/11/23 by Ian Hay
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