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Offshore Geology
MAIN EVENTS MAY 1998 - MARCH 1999
The 18th Round of Seaward Licensing
Frigg Treaty and UK/Norwegian Framework Agreement
UK/Belgium Interconnector
Gas Liberalisation Directive

OIL AND GAS (OG) DIRECTORATE

THE OIL AND GAS AND PETROCHEMICAL SUPPLY INDUSTRY

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Digital Version of the Brown Book

Box 1.1 OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY TASK FORCE

2 ECONOMIC IMPACT

Chart 2.1 Trends in the Production of Oil and Gas, 1970 to 1998

Chart 2.2 Average Oil and Gas Prices from UKCS sales, 1976 to 1998

Chart 2.3 Changes in forecast oil demand
Chart 2.4 UKCS oil and gas sector sales 1976 to 1998, and contribution to GVA

SALES

INVESTMENT

Table 2.1 - Intentions to drill E&A wells: from DTI 1998 Survey
Chart 2.5 - UKCS production investment, 1976 to 1998 with intended expenditure to 2000
Table 2.2 - DTI capital expenditure survey 1998

COSTS

Chart 2.6: Unit operating costs in 1998 prices, 1976 to 1998

Table 2.3 - Unit costs of fields at 1997 prices

EMPLOYMENT

Chart 2.7 - Employment in the oil and gas sector, and employment offshore - 1976 to 1998

Table 2.4 - Employment in 1996 & 1997 by type

BALANCE OF PAYMENTS

Chart 2.8 - Visible trade balance, 1976 to 1998

GOVERNMENT REVENUES

Chart 2.9 - Government receipts from UKCS - with oil prices, and production 1976/77 to 1997/98

Box 2.1 UKCS FISCAL REGIME
Table 2.5 - Taxes and Royalties Attributable to UK Oil and Gas Production and Gas Levy

3 REGULATORY REGIME

LICENSING

Legislative Framework

Types of Seaward Licences

Types of Landward Licences

Criteria for Awarding Licences

Applications For Licences

Financial Terms

OFFSHORE HEALTH AND SAFETY

DECOMMISSIONING

Legislation

Policy

Brent Spar
Cuttings Pile Research

Guidance Notes

4 ENVIRONMENT

DTI’S ROLE AS A REGULATOR

EU Habitats Directive

Environmental Impact Assessments

POLLUTION PREVENTION AND OIL SPILLS

Chart 4.1 - Total amount of oil spilled by year

Table 4.1 - Oil spills reported to the DTI, 19898 - 1998
Further Improvements to the Offshore Environmental Regime

Offshore Aerial Surveillance
Offshore Inspections

OPERATIONAL DISCHARGES FROM OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS

Chart 4.2 - Average oil in water content
Table 4.2 - Oil discharged with produced water, 1988 - 1998
Oil Contaminated Drill Cuttings

Synthetic Drilling Fluids

Chart 4.3 Synthetic drilling fluid discharges

OFFSHORE CHEMICALS

INTERNATIONAL FORA

The Oslo and Paris (OSPAR) Convention

SEBA 1998

SEBA 1999

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

CLIMATE CHANGE

5 EXPLORATION, APPRAISAL AND LICENCING

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION AND APPRAISAL

Chart 5.1 - Sedimentary Basin

Northern North Sea (including East Shetland Platform)

West of England and Wales

English Channel

Other Offshore areas

ONSHORE EXPLORATION AND APPRAISAL

DEVELOPMENT DRILLING

LICENSING

Seaward Licensing Rounds

Landward Licensing Rounds

FALLOW BLOCKS

Current Review of Fallow Blocks

NORTHERN IRELAND

Chart 5.2 - JNCC Regional Coastal Reports

6 RESERVES

CLASSIFICATION OF RESERVES

DISCOVERED RECOVERABLE RESERVES

Oil

Table 6.1 - Estimates of discovered recoverable reserves of OIL on the UKCS as at 31 December 1998

Chart 6.1 - Discovered recoverable reserves - Oil

Gas

Table 6.2 - Estimates of discovered recoverable reserves of GAS on the UKCS as at 31 December 1998

Chart 6.2 - Discovered recoverable reserves - Gas

Dry Gas

Gas from Gas Condensate Fields

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 1998

FIELD APPROVALS

Table 7.1 - Development Plans authorised in 1998

TRENDS AND HIGHLIGHTS

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

HYDROCARBONS ADDITIONAL RECOVERY PROGRAMME (HARP)

8 PRODUCTION AND DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES

Chart 8.1 - 1998 Oil production by field

OIL PRODUCTION

OIL & GAS PRODUCTION FORECASTS

OIL DISPOSAL

Table 8.1 - Oil terminals receiving UKCS crude oil in 1998

Chart 8.2 - Total UKCS disposals of crude oil & NGLs 1998

GAS PRODUCTION AND DISPOSAL

Chart 8.3 -1998 gas production by field

Table 8.2 - Top ten UKCS gas producing fields in 1998

Table 8.3: Gas terminals receiving UKCS Natural Gas in 1998

GAS FLARING

OFFSHORE PIPELINES

PRODUCTION AND DISPOSAL OF NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS

9 REVIEW OF FIELDS

GUIDANE 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 1983-1998

5 Sales and expenditure upon exploration, development and operating activities

6 Oil Production

7 Gross gas production

8 Oil and gas flared at offshore producing fields

9 Gas flaring 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 (April 1999)

16 Other useful addresses and numbers

17 Key Contacts List

COLOUR MAPS SHOWING UK OIL AND GAS

INDEX MAP

PLATE 1

PLATE 2 WEST

PLATE 2 EAST

PLATE 3 WEST

PLATE 3 EAST

PLATE 4 WEST

PLATE 4 EAST

PLATE 5 WEST

PLATE 5 EAST

PLATE 6

PLATE 7

PLATE 8 WEST

PLATE 8 EAST

PLATE 9 WEST

PLATE 9 EAST

PLATE 10 WEST

PLATE 10 EAST

PLATE 11

PLATE 12

LEGEND