UK oil output slumps in Q3

UK oil production continued its multi-year decline to fall 10.9% year-on-year in the third quarter, while gas output rose 3.6% over the same timeframe thanks to the start-up of ConocoPhillips’ Jasmine and RWE’s Breagh fields, official statistics showed.

Downtime effect: Seasonal shutdown of Buzzard, above, among factors prompting oil output fall
Downtime effect: Seasonal shutdown of Buzzard, above, among factors prompting oil output fall
Published 18 December 2014, 11:24Updated 11 October 2016, 15:32