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Scottish Oil and Gas Production
Key Findings
The East Grampian Coast is the key location for the Oil and Gas industry in the United Kingdom. Aberdeen and Peterhead serve as the hub for supporting the Scottish sector of the North Sea, with Aberdeen Airport as the key heliport for crew transfer.
In addition, the Forties pipeline which passes under the beach at Cruden Bay carries around 30% of UK oil production. The gas terminal at St Fergus is one of three main plants in the UK that process natural gas from the Scottish and Norwegian sectors. St Fergus is made up of three plans owned by Shell, Total and Apache, processing around 20% of the UKs gas demand.
Oil and gas production fell steadily from 1999 until 2014 when 30 new oil fields came onstream. Increased production efficiency led to an increase in production. However, production has been on the decrease again between 2019 and 2023 (Fig. 1).
Information on this topic together with readable explanation can be found at Scottish Energy Statistical Hubs Oil and Gas section.
Figure 1: Taken from Data on the Scottish Energy Statistics Hub
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20/11/2023 by Ian Hay
13/03/2025 by Charlotte Tomlinson
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