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CONTENTS

MINISTERIAL FOREWORD

KEY POINTS

OFFSHORE ENVIRONMENTAL BULLET POINTS

UK CONTINENTAL SHELF DESIGNATIONS

1 WORKING WITH THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

WORKING WITH THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

Petroleum Licensing

Data Release

Table 1.1

CDA (Common Data Access)

The Environmental Imperative

Assessment (EIA) Directive

Infrastructure

DTI Core Store

CRINE Network

Hydrocarbon Additional Recovery Programme (HARP)

Offshore Geology

Best Practice Conference

OIL AND GAS (OG) DIRECTORATE

OSO AND THE OIL AND GAS AND PETROCHEMICAL SUPPLY INDUSTRY

World-Wide Web Pages

Digital Version of Volume 2 of Energy Report ("the Brown Book")

Box 1.1 ORIGINS OF OIL AND GAS

2 ECONOMIC IMPACT

Chart 2.1 Trends in the Production of Oil and Gas, 1970 to 1997

Chart 2.2 Average Oil and Gas Prices from UKCS sales, 1976 to 1997

Chart 2.3 UKCS Oil and Gas Sector - Contribution to GDP - 1976 to 1997

SALES

INVESTMENT

Chart 2.4 UKCS capital investment, 1976 to 1997 with intended expenditure to 2000

Table 2.1 - DTI capital expenditure survey 1997

COSTS

Table 2.2 - Intentions to drill E & A Wells: from DTI 1998 Survey

Chart 2.5 - Unit operating costs in 1997 prices - 1976 to 1997

Table 2.3 - Unit costs of fields at 1997 prices

EMPLOYMENT

Chart 2.6 - Employment in the oil and gas sector, and employment offshore - 1978 to 1997

BALANCE OF PAYMENTS

Chart 2.7 - Visible trade balance, 1976 to 1997

GOVERNMENT REVENUES

Table 2.4 - Taxes and Royalties Attributable to UK Oil and Gas Production and Gas Levy

Chart 2.8 - Government receipts from UKCS - with oil prices, and production 1976/77 to 1997/98

UKCS FISCAL REGIME

3 REGULATORY REGIME

REASONS FOR REGULATORY REGIME

LICENSING

Legislative Framework

Types of Seaward Licences

Types of Landward Licences

Criteria for Awarding Licences

Applications For Licences

Financial Terms

Depletion Control

OFFSHORE HEALTH AND SAFETY

DTI’S ROLE AS A REGULATOR

EU Habitats Directive

EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive

OIL SPILLS

Chart 4.1 - Total amount of oil spilled by year

Table 4.1 - Oil spills reported to the DTI, 1988 - 1997

Aerial Surveillance

OFFSHORE INSPECTIONS

DISCHARGES FROM OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS

Produced Water Discharges

Oil Contaminated Drill Cuttings

Table 4.2 - Oil discharged with produced water, 1988 - 1998

Synthetic Drilling Fluids

Chart 4.2 - Synthetic drilling fluid discharges

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

5 EXPLORATION, APPRAISALAND LICENCING

Chart 5.1 - Sedimentary Basin

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION AND APPRAISAL

Chart 5.2 - JNCC Regional Coastal Reports

Northern North Sea (including East Shetland Platform)

West of England and Wales

English Channel

Other Offshore areas

ONSHORE EXPLORATION AND APPRAISAL

DEVELOPMENT DRILLING

LICENSING ROUNDS

Seaward Licensing Rounds

Out of Round Blocks

Landward Licensing Rounds

FALLOW BLOCKS

NORTHERN IRELAND

6 RESERVES

CLASSIFICATION OF RESERVES

Chart 6.1 - Discovered recoverable reserves - Oil

Table 6.1 - Estimates of discovered recoverable reserves of OIL on the UKCS as at 31 December 1997

Table 6.2 - Estimates of discovered recoverable reserves of GAS on the UKCS as at 31 December 1997

Gas

Chart 6.2 - Discovered recoverable reserves - Gas

Dry Gas

Condensate Gas

Associated Gas

POTENTIAL ADDITIONAL RESERVES

Table 6.3 - Potential additional reserves

UNDISCOVERED RECOVERABLE RESERVES

Table 6.4 - Estimates of undiscovered recoverable reservces on the UKCS

ESTIMATED POTENTIAL OF THE UKCS

Table 6.5 - UK initially recoverable reserves

7 DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY APPROVED IN 1997

FIELD APPROVALS

Table 7.1 - Development Plans authorised in 1997

TRENDS AND HIGHLIGHTS

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

HYDROCARBONS ADDITIONAL RECOVERY PROGRAMME (HARP)

8 PRODUCTION AND DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES

OIL PRODUCTION

OIL & GAS PRODUCTION FORECASTS

a) Oil Range

b) Gas Range

OIL DISPOSAL

Table 8.1 - Oil terminals receiving UKCS crude oil in 1996/7

GAS PRODUCTION AND DISPOSAL

Chart 8.1 - 1997 Oil production by field

Chart 8.2 - 1997 Gas production by field

Chart 8.3 - Total UKCS disposals of crude oil & NGLs 1997

GAS FLARING

OFFSHORE PIPELINES

Table 8.2 - Distillation Capacity of Refineries

PRODUCTION AND DISPOSAL OF NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS

OFFSHORE INFRASTRUCTURE CODE OF PRACTICE

REFINING IN THE UK

Chart 8.3 - United Kingdom Refinery Locations as at 1 January 1998

9 REVIEW OF FIELDS

GUIDANCE TO READERS

REVIEW OF FIELDS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

APPENDICES

1 Offshore licensing rounds

2 Drilling activity

3 Significant offshore discoveries in date order

4 Onshore oil and gas discoveries 1983-1997

5 Sales and expenditure upon exploration, development and operating activities

6 Oil Production

7 Gross gas production

8 Oil produced and gas flared at offshore producing fields

9 Gas flared at oil terminals and producing offshore oil fields

10 Oil production platforms

11 Offshore oil and gas trunk and interfield pipelines

12 Decommissioned installations

13 Glossary of terms and abbreviations

14 Ministerial and senior oil and gas responsibilities in the DTI

15 Oil and Gas (OG) Directorate structure and organisation

16 Postal details of UK refineries

17 Other useful addresses and numbers

COLOUR MAPS SHOWING UK OIL AND GAS

PLATE 1

PLATE 6

PLATE 7