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Toggle United Kingdom subsection. 1.1 Onshore. ... Print/export Download as PDF ... All fields in British territory are operated as part of the BP's North Sea ...
Tanks decommissioned, Pump station extant [5] Welton Lincolnshire International Petroleum / Igas Energy (formerly BP Developments 1986) Gathering station for local oil fields (Welton, Scampton North, etc.) loading facilities for rail export [35] [36] [37] Westerleigh South Gloucestershire Puma Energy Storage, 14 tanks, 15,237 m³ [1] [3] [2]
The onshore oil and gas resources in the United Kingdom are located in a number of provinces corresponding to prospective sedimentary basins. Provinces and Basins (from south to north) include the Wessex-Channel Basin, Weald Basin, Worcester Basin, Cheshire Basin, East Midlands Province, West Lancashire Basin, NE England Province, Northumberland-Solway Basin, Midland Valley of Scotland, and ...
Petroleum refining in the United Kingdom produced around 51.45 million tonnes of petroleum products in 2023, down 16% from 2015 and 32% from 2011. [1] There are six major and one minor petroleum refinery in the downstream sector of the UK oil industry .
This was the first time that North Sea Gas had been brought ashore in the UK from the West Sole field. [4] In 1980 British Gas purchased the field Rough and in 1983 began conversion to a storage field. BP Dimlington opened in October 1988. BP's Ravenspurn North field was added in 1990 and the Johnston field was added in 1994.
BP is the operator of the Clair oilfield, which has been appraised as the largest hydrocarbon resource in the UK. [191] There are 1,200 BP service stations in the UK. [192] [193] Since 2018 BP operates the UK's largest electric vehicle charging network through its subsidiary BP Pulse (formerly Chargemaster). [6]
The UK has the capacity to refine 92 million tonnes of crude oil a year. Currently the North Sea is producing around 1.5m barrels of oil a day. The peak was in 2000 at 4.5m a day. The Brent oilfield is being decommissioned. The United Kingdom Continental Shelf has reserves of between 12 - 24bn barrels. In 2014, around 14% of the UK's gas came ...
In May 2011, BP announced that it had agreed to sell its majority interest in Wytch Farm to Perenco, which became the new operator. [9] Premier Oil has a 30.1% stake in the field. [ 10 ] On 17 May 2011, BP announced the sale of its interests in the Wytch Farm, Wareham, Beacon and Kimmeridge fields to Perenco [ 11 ] and the sale of the ...