Mr. ErnieRoss asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will publish a list of the companies which have received overpayments of grants from the Offshore Supplies Office; and what were the overpayments in each case.
§ Mr. Gray[pursuant to his reply, 28 March 1980, c. 733]: I assume the hon. Member is referring to continuing payments of grant which were entered into by the OSO outside the guidelines of the offshore supplies interest relief grant scheme since its inception. The following indicates the position last autumn:
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£ million Total Oil Marine Limited 0.71 Elf Oil Exploration and Production UK Ltd. 0.88 Aquitaine Oil (UK) 0.47 Shell (UK) Ltd. 1.2 BP Oil Development Ltd. 2.0
£ million Allied Chemical (North Sea) Ltd. 0.15 Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. 0.51 Esso Exploration and Production UK 5.2 Thomson North Sea Ltd. 0.48 Total Marine Norsk A/S 0.23 Elf Norge A/S 0.35 Aquitaine Norge A/S 0.11 Norsk Hydro Produksjon A/S 0.47 ICI Petroleum Ltd. 0.47 Murphy Petroleum Ltd. 0.54 Mobil North Sea Ltd. 0.012 Amoco (UK) Exploration Company 0.13 Gas Council (Exploration) Ltd. 0.13 Ocean Exploration Co Ltd. 0.37 Gulf Oil Corporation—UK E & P Division 0.1 Ranger Oil (UK) Ltd. 0.49 North Sea Inc. 0.27 Tenneco (UK) Inc. 0.32 LASMO: London & Scottish Marine Oil Company Ltd. 0.45 Burmah Oil Exploration Ltd. 0.082 Det Norske Oljeselskap A/S 0.0015 The Charterhouse Group Ltd. 0.077 Unionoil Co of Great Britain 0.0076 St. Joe Petroleum (UK) Corporation 0.0016 Candel Oil Ltd—United Kingdom Branch 0.0047 To provide figure for a current date would involve disproportinate cost.