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united Kingdom production and value of oil, including condensate 1970–2004
Million tonnes
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1970
Oil production
Value of oil
production
(constant 2001
prices)
Decline in oil
prices
Piper Alpha
disaster
1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000
united Kingdom production of onshore crude petroleum and natural gas by fields 1993–2004
£ billion
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
oil fields Thousand tonnes
Beckingham W 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Cold Hanworth — — — — — 2 2 1 4 13 20 15
Crosby Warren 6 4 2 3 4 4 1 0 3 3 3 2
Farleys Wood 2 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fiskerton Airfield — — — — — 1 19 18 5 1 0 0
Glentworth E 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 2
Goodworth — — — — 1 3 2 2 2 2 2 2
Herriard 2 2 4 3 2 1 1 1 — 1 2 1
Horndean 20 16 19 17 15 14 13 10 9 8 11 9
Humbly Grove 52 48 51 36 37 29 24 14 16 11 13 15
Keddington — — — — — 2 5 3 1 1 2 2
Kirklington — — 0 0 0 0 — — — — 1 0
Long Clawson 8 7 7 8 8 9 10 9 8 9 9 9
Nettleham 4 3 1 1 6 9 7 5 3 3 4 3
Newton-on-Trent — — — — — — 2 1 0 0 0 0
Palmers Wood 45 38 37 24 23 19 10 10 12 15 11 7
Rempstone 2 2 5 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1
Scampton — — — 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scampton N 12 8 8 13 17 12 11 11 11 10 9 9
Singleton 39 34 35 36 36 27 21 21 23 22 20 22
Stainton 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
Stockbridge 41 78 92 86 79 110 87 42 42 37 36 38
Storrington — — — — — 14 15 8 4 20 21 20
Wareham 77 66 56 42 32 20 21 15 19 9 6 9
Welton 132 138 127 153 150 123 90 87 77 64 58 54
West Firsby 16 12 14 26 27 17 10 8 5 6 4 5
Whisby 4 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 9
Wytch Farm 3 210 4 123 4 543 4 730 4 481 4 690 3 867 2 919 2 656 2 381 1 915 1 649
Other 61 61 58 53 23 51 44 42 39 34 32 38
total 3 737 4 649 5 067 5 240 4 949 5 161 4 269 3 234 2 944 2 652 2 186 1 924
gas fields Million cubic metres
Wytch Farm 120 161 182 245 242 156 149 111 115 108 82 73
Others 107 80 140 137 146 179 140 106 91 65 90 49
total (a) (b) 227 241 322 382 388 335 289 217 205 173 172 122
(a) Gross production, i.e. includes own use for drilling purposes, (b) Other than colliery methane.
production and pumping operations, but excludes gas flared
and vented. Source: Department of Trade and Industry.
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