HC Deb 01 December 1977 vol 940 c298W
Mr. Sillars

asked the Secretary of State for Energy what progress has been made on enabling British-based technology to exploit to the maximum the recoverable reserves in marginal and faulted oilfields in the Scottish sector of the North Sea.

Dr. J. Dickson Mabon

British firms are in the forefront of development of new production systems, such as sub-sea completions, drilling templates and floating platforms, which either alone or in various combinations might assist the development of difficult fields both on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf and abroad.