APPENDIX 7 Sales and Expenditure on Exploration, Development and Operating Activities

APPENDIX 7 Sales and Expenditure on Exploration, Development and Operating Activities

Sales (Ł million)
Year	Oil	NGLs	Gas	Other⁽¹⁾	Total Operators & Licensees	Contractors	Total of sector
1990	8,432	277	2,377	405	11,491	525	12,016
1991	7,577	385	2,988	476	11,426	680	12,106
1992	7,430	380	3,016	626	11,453	784	12,237
1993	8,109	523	3,568	699	12,899	943	13,842
1994	8,964	528	3,836	974	14,302	1,640	15,942
1995	9,881	614	4,141	1,166	15,802	2,027	17,829
1996	11,849	748	5,295	1,243	19,135	1,860	20,995
1997	10,327	700	5,254	1,279	17,560	1,404	18,964
1998	7,487	551	5,313	1,453	14,805	2,228	17,033
1999	10,257	727	5,031	1,435	17,450	1,809	19,259
2000p	16,129	1,111	6,611	1,525	25,376	1,600	26,977

Expenses (Ł million)						Gross Operating Surplus (Ł million)
Year	Operating costs	Other⁽²⁾	Total Operators & Licensees	Contractors	Total of sector	Operators & Licensees	Contractors	Total of sector
1990	2,892	46	2938	314	3,252	8,552	211	8,764
1991	3,296	58	3354	420	3,774	8,073	260	8,332
1992	3,312	53	3365	541	3,906	8,088	243	8,331
1993	3,661	47	3708	808	4,515	9,191	135	9,327
1994	3,860	40	3900	1,376	5,276	10,401	264	10,665
1995	3,913	37	3950	1,800	5,750	11,852	228	12,079
1996	3,978	31	4009	1,506	5,514	15,127	354	15,481
1997	4,150	34	4184	986	5,170	13,377	418	13,795
1998	4,190	111	4301	1,444	5,745	10,504	784	11,288
1999	4,249	282	4531	1,239	5,770	12,919	570	13,489
2000p	4,288	137	4425	1,369	5,794	20,952	231	21,183

Notes:

(1) Revenues from pipelines and terminals, and other revenues of operators and production licensees. (2) Other costs of operators and production licensees not attributable to oil or gas fields

The figures exclude change in stocks and book value of stocks - Gross Operating Surplus is given as Total income less Total Expenses.

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Capital Investment (Ł million)
Year	E&A⁽³⁾	of which seismic	Oil & Gas Fields	Operators Non-field⁽⁴⁾	Total Operators Other than E&A	Total Operators & Licensees	Contractors	Total of sector
1990	1,637		3,560	-82	3,478	5,115	-16	5,100
1991	1,955		5,078	23	5,101	7,056	25	7,081
1992	1,508		5,374	54	5,428	6,936	18	6,954
1993	1,213		4,571	90	4,661	5,874	3	5,877
1994	939	160	3,620	51	3,671	4,610	80	4,690
1995	1,085	204	4,309	47	4,356	5,441	83	5,523
1996	1,097	190	4,326	38	4,364	5,461	76	5,537
1997	1,194	181	4,228	35	4,263	5,457	70	5,527
1998	762	128	5,053	-58	4,995	5,757	91	5,849
1999	457	55	3,102	-39	3,063	3,520	53	3,573
2000p	377	40	2,786	-38	2,748	3,125	100	3,225

Notes:

(3) E&A costs include exploration, and the cost of appraisal wells drilled prior to development approval. Seismic costs (collected separately since 1994) are included in the total shown. (4) Other capital investment of operators and production licensees not classified to fields.

Contractors are defined as companies whose main activities are service activities incidental to oil and gas extraction, excluding surveying (Standard Industrial Classification Revision 1992 Class 11.2)

Operating expenditure (Ł million)
Year	Total	Tariffs	Other	Maintenance		Wages & salaries	Insurance	Transport	Platform hire	Misc
				Platform & equipment	Field
Oil fields
1990	2,311			446	174	312	148	197	15	1,012
1991	2,646			447	209	325	146	260	6	1,250
1992	2,603			368	178	323	154	235	50	1,296
1993	2,885			391	205	308	228	284	30	1,443
1994	3,036			472	202	311	212	422	10	1,407
1995	3,054			395	266	302	170	501	3	1,417
1996	3,100			357	266	282	136	310	0	1,750
1997	3,122			382	262	244	100	272	47	1,816
1998	3,067	821	2,246
1999	2,955	897	2,058
2000	3,117	938	2,179

Gas fields
1990	583			128	15	82	33	41	0	282
1991	651			125	26	107	40	53	0	299
1992	711			99	26	127	39	65	0	360
1993	776			102	29	95	42	65	7	436
1994	815			120	30	95	48	74	0	448
1995	859			122	24	91	56	58	1	508
1996	878			119	21	100	40	58	0	541
1997	1,023			152	47	111	30	37	1	637
1998	1,122	367	755
1999	1,294	397	897
2000	1,171	422	749

Year	Quarter	Oil fields	Gas fields
1999	Q1	668	292
	Q2	706	294
	Q3	713	329
	Q4	868	379
2000p	Q1	682	292
	Q2	804	292
	Q3	827	267
	Q4	805	320

Notes:
p Provisional

Development expenditure by Operators and other Production Licensees (Ł million)
Year	Total	Platform structures	Modules and equipment	Offshore loading systems	Pipelines	Terminals	Development wells	Other expenditure
Oil fields
1990	2,425	748	803	26	232	104	462	49
1991	3,343	1,368	886	17	207	143	548	176
1992	3,774	1,625	973	38	172	244	600	123
1993	3,231	1,205	878	59	66	154	738	131
1994	2,560	1,012	544	14	173	67	724	25
1995	2,876	1,007	615	126	89	56	962	22
1996	2,997	708	585	246	88	65	1278	27
1997	2,934	634	466	289	47	91	1,393	15
1998	3,188	1,097	< included	154	78	53	1,686	120
1999	1,941	599		74	58	47	1,060	102
2000p	1,758	641		46	44	54	838	135

Gas fields
1990	1,135	325	192	0	230	107	267	14
1991	1,735	434	479	0	292	110	412	8
1992	1,600	292	441	0	290	242	294	42
1993	1,340	301	276	1	201	196	322	44
1994	1,060	276	193	18	124	128	313	8
1995	1,433	327	448	16	74	88	467	14
1996	1,329	300	456	1	83	92	357	41
1997	1,294	274	341	27	86	76	448	50
1998	1,865	967	< included		190	32	641	35
1999	1,162	423			40	29	582	88
2000p	1,028	478			40	37	428	45

Year	Quarter	Oil fields	Gas fields
1999	Q1	514	321
	Q2	527	318
	Q3	442	289
	Q4	457	234
2000p	Q1	374	177
	Q2	456	233
	Q3	397	400
	Q4	531	218

Notes:

(1) Some figures have been revised since the last Report.

(2) Expenditure on gas fields includes all S. Basin, Morecambe, Frigg, Bruce, that on FLAGS and the other associated gas gathering pipelines and onshore related facilities, and certain other identifiable parts of fields.

p Provisional

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