HC Deb 25 March 1980 vol 981 cc511-2W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Energy how many platforms are presently producing natural gas off the United Kingdom coastline; how many platforms are being developed in the same areas; and when the supply of gas from each platform will run out.

Mr. Gray

There are currently 32 registered gas-producing platform installations on the United Kingdom continental shelf, excluding platforms used for the production of both gas and oil. No further production platforms are currently under construction. Production from each installation will cease when it is uneconomic to continue, but all those now in service are expected to remain so until at least the 1990s.