Start-up a 'major milestone' for UK's West of Shetland region

The start-up of BP's £4.5 billion ($5.8 billion) Clair Ridge project has been hailed as a "major milestone" for the UK's West of Shetland region, still an area of potential growth for the largely ageing and mature North Sea industry, write Rob Watts and Steve Marshall.

BP, with partners Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips, expects production from the giant twin-platform development to ramp up to a peak of 120,000 barrels per day of oil.