A huge amount of oil and gas has passed through Shetland. According to some estimates, about 20% of the 45 billion barrels of oil equivalent pumped from the UK continental shelf in the past 50 years has flowed through the islands, mostly via the Sullom Voe Terminal (SVT).
Operated by UK independent EnQuest on behalf of a long list of partners, Sullom Voe was built in the late 1970s to receive oil through the Brent and Ninian pipeline systems from the massive but now declining fields east of Shetland.
