HC Deb 14 May 1990 vol 172 c319W
Mr. John Marshall

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make a statement on the forecast level of drilling activity on the United Kingdom continental shelf during the coming year.

Mr. Peter Morrison

I refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. Friends the Members for Battersea (Mr. Bowis) and for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Arbuthnot) on 26 March 1990, at columns89–90.

Mr. Boswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what is his estimate of how much gas has been produced on the United Kingdom continental shelf since the first significant discoveries.

Mr. Peter Morrison

The cumulative total production of gas from the United Kingdom continental shelf up to the end of 1989 was 735,724 million cu m, of which 170 million cu m have been produced onshore.