§ Mr. Palmerasked the Secretary of State for Energy if the figures given in the House on 4 December by the then Under-Secretary of State for Energy, stating that the supply of natural gas will expand from about 4,000 million cubic feet a day at present to about 6,000 million cubic feet a day by the mid-1980s, still hold good.
§ Mr. Palmerasked the Secretary of State for Energy what is the approximate estimated rate of natural gas depletion over the next 10 years.
§ Mr. GrayThe estimated average annual offtake over the next few years is expected to be nearly 2 trillion cubic feet. This has to be related to the central estimate of ultimately recoverable gas reserves available to the United Kingdom quoted in the Brown Book 1979 as 70 tcf. So far some 10 tcf of these have been used up.
§ Mr. Palmerasked the Secretary of State for Energy what discussions he has 77W had with the chairman of the Gas Corporation about the export of natural gas.