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Offshore Industry: North Sea

Answer

Data are presented in the table below. Production is the amount extracted from the North Sea along with small amounts of onshore production. Refinery receipts represent crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and process oils (i.e. partly refined oils) as received by UK refineries. Receipts can be processed or go into stock for later use at the refinery or exports. Indigenous refinery receipts represent crude oil and NGLs received by refineries from UK production. For gas, due to the interconnected nature of gas pipeline infrastructure and the consequent mixing of UK continental shelf production and imports it is not possible to determine exactly what proportion of indigenously produced gas is used domestically.

	thousand tonnes
	Production	Imports	Refinery receipts
			Total	Indigenous
2021	40,866	38,061	48,498	6,766
2022	38,166	43,019	53,736	7,220
2023	33,361	41,389	51,840	6,754
2024	30,388	44,573	51,960	4,002
2025 [provisional]	31,180	40,493	48,150	4,666

	Natural Gas
	GWh
	Production	Imports
2021	363,992	560,844
2022	423,226	618,291
2023	383,037	494,919
2024	343,722	453,301
2025 [provisional]	332,444	463,692

Notes.

Source: Energy Trends Tables 3.10 and 4.2

Years. Data in calendar years as published in Energy Trends.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL550

Session

2026-27

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Offshore industry North Sea

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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