”The government needs to get off the fence and stop treating all industries as equal. It needs to say across the nation, that where industry is concerned, oil and gas is the highest priority we have,”he says.
Oil and gas output supports almost 500,000 jobs in the UK. About 380,000 are involved directly and indirectly in extracting hydrocarbons from the UK continental shelf, with about another 100,000 involved in the export of goods and services.
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