HC Deb 25 November 1981 vol 13 cc380-1W
Mr. Stan Thorne

asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will provide percentage figures of oil production sector by sector according to ownership by the United Kingdom and other nations.

Mr. Gray

To reveal information on the proportion of oil production on the United Kingdom continental shelf sector by sector in the form requested would breach commercial confidentiality since details of field unitisa-tion and participation arrangements could not be adequately protected.

Mr. Stan Thorne

asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will provide figures of oil production in barrels per day produced in each field of operation.

Mr. Gray

Field by field figures of oil production in thousands of barrels per day for the last complete year available—1980—are as follows:

Number
Argyll 15.9
Auk 12.9
Beryl 110.4
Brent 139.8

Number
Claymore 87.6
Cormorant 21.8
Dunlin 105.9
Forties 503.4
Heather 14.3
Montrose 24.5
Murchison *33.7
Ninian 231.2
Piper 212.8
Stratford 11.2
Thistle 108.8
* United Kingdom share only. The figure is an average taken over the three-month period from start up on 28 September 1980 to year end.

Note: Figures in tonnes for past complete years are also published annually in Appendix 1 of the Secretary of State for Energy's report to Parliament on the Development of the Oil and Gas Resources of the United Kingdom—the Brown Book.