North Sea Oil and Gas

HC Deb 29 March 1990 vol 170 c281W

Mr. Steinberg

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will list the output of North sea oil and gas for each year since 1980.

Mr. Peter Morrison

North Sea oil and gas production in the period 1980 to 1989 was as follows:

	Crude oil (thousand tonnes)	Natural gas liquids thousand tonnes)	Gas (Million cubic metres)
1980	78,680	1,550	37,290
1981	87,714	1,534	37,186
1982	100,058	2,908	37,832
1983	110,566	4,078	38,690
1984	120,961	4,759	38,520
1985	122,069	5,150	42,961
1986	120,734	5,815	45,289
1987	117,030	5,693	47,623
1988	108,641	5,004	45,726
19891	86,505	4,407	44,705

Source: Figures for 1980 to 1988. United Kingdom Digest of Energy Statistics 1989. Figures for 1989. February 1990 issue of Energy Trends.

¹ Provisional