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	North Sea production wilts \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		The decline is concentrated in the British sector of the North Sea, where industry analysts Wood Mackenzie said average production for the first half of 2004 was 1.9 million barrels per day, down around 12 percent from the level of 2.166 million a year ago.
		Crude production from the British sector of the North Sea fell to an average of 1.76 million barrels per day in July, a decline of 9.9 percent compared with the same time last year, and a fall of 0.8 percent on the month, according to figures this week from the Royal Bank of Scotland.
		The Norwegian North Sea is less mature than the British sector, and the nation's budget forecasts a rise in production next year to 3.3 million barrels per day from the annual daily average of 3.2 million barrels per day anticipated for 2004.
	www.energybulletin.net /2499.html (814 words)

	Oil & Gas in the North Sea - ExploreNorth
		Oil is first and foremost the raw material of the age of mobility, an essential condition for the internal combustion engine.
		A ministry for the formulation of oil policies was established and oil legislation was formulated in the national assembly.
		The oil and gas riches are to be converted into financial riches in the shape of an oil fund to ensure the welfare of future generations.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/weekly/aa091500a.htm (1564 words)

	Exploring for oils.Exploring for resources. A North Sea Oil story. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Microscopic plants and animals bloomed in the sea and, when they died, they settled to the stagnant sea floor and were buried in the mud.
		The oil was squeezed downwards from the clay source rocks into the sandstone reservoir rocks beneath; natural gas from the coals was also released.
		There the oil is fractionally distilled in oil refineries and used for fuel or as the basis of plastics, chemicals, medicines, fibres for clothing, etc.
	schoolscience.co.uk /content/4/chemistry/findoils/findoilch6pg3.html (573 words)

	SHELRIG Case
		The Shell Oil Company was one of the large oil companies to tap into the vast reserves of the North Sea.
		As the North Sea oil fields near exhaustion, a set of international guidelines regarding the disposal of oil rigs would prevent future disagreement.
		Legal Standing: TREATY The only documents governing the disposal of waste at sea, in the case of an oil rig, are the Oslo Convention on the Northeast Atlantic and the guidelines of the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations.
	www.american.edu /TED/shellrig.htm (1934 words)

	North sea oil gas radioactivity versus nuclear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		North Sea oil and gas operations now contribute more man-made radioactivity to North European marine waters than the nuclear industry, according to the Marina II study, a European Commission (EC)-funded project undertaken by international experts to update data on the impact of radioactivity in the region's seas.
		The study found that nuclear industry discharges to sea are back at the same level as the early 1950s, and that naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) now dominate doses to the European Union (EU) population from industrial discharges, both in terms of alpha activity and overall impact (collective dose).
		Norway is the largest oil producer in the North Sea and is estimated to provide the greatest impact from current discharges.
	www.ecolo.org /documents/documents_in_english/north_sea_radioact.htm (595 words)

	Depletion Rates for Major North Sea Oil Fields
		In the U.K. sector of the North Sea, the 200
		Figure 11 is a graph of cumulative oil discovery versus the cumulative number of wildcat oil wells for the U.K. sector of the North Sea.
		for the U.K. sector of the North Sea
	dieoff.org /page180.htm (1630 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - North Sea Oil & Gas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		OIL companies in Scotland must strive to recruit engineers and technicians from other industries, a report from Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce and Deloitte, the accountancy firm, will warn this week.
		A MAJOR milestone in the history of the UK's offshore oil and gas industry was reached yesterday as drilling began on the 10,000th well in the seabed off Britain's coast.
		NORTH Sea oil companies were yesterday warned to improve safety performances after two workers...
	business.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=181 (452 words)

	North Sea oil - Money Week
		North Sea oil and gas has been something of a mixed blessing for the UK economy.
		On the debit side, North Sea revenues gave a huge boost to sterling, turning the pound into something of a petro-currency, which was a disaster for the competitiveness of UK manufacturing.
		Some economists believe that, without North Sea oil, the Thatcher Government might have been forced to abandon the strict monetarist economic policies that caused interest rates to rise to punitive levels in the early 1980s, and to scale back Thatcher’s confrontation with the unions and privatisation programme, both of which contributed to soaring unemployment.
	www.moneyweek.com /file/2167/north-sea-oil.html (1173 words)

	AGREEMENT FOR COOPERATION IN DEALING WITH POLLUTION OF THE NORTH SEA BY OIL AND OTHER HARMFUL SUBSTANCES
		Summary of the "Agreement for Cooperation in Dealing with Pollution of the North Sea by Oil and other Harmful Substances" is available from the UNEP Register of International Treaties and Other Agreements in the Field of the Environment.
		For the sole purpose of this Agreement the North Sea area is divided into the zones described in the Annex to this Agreement.
		Upon the entry into force of this Agreement, the Agreement for Co-operation in dealing with Pollution of the North Sea by Oil, done at Bonn on 9 June 1969, shall cease to be in force.
	sedac.ciesin.org /entri/texts/pollution.oil.north.sea.1983.html (1486 words)

	Oilexco Incorporated • Projects • North Sea Oil • Exploration • Moray Firth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The sidetrack well-bore 15/25b‑7Z, encountered a thick, porous upper Paleocene‑aged sand with a thin oil column at the top of the sand that suggests that this structural anomaly is separate from the Brenda stratigraphic accumulation to the south, which is at a structurally lower position.
		The intersection of oil, accompanied with the successful oil test at the 15/25b‑9Y extended the limits of the Brenda oil accumulation southeast towards the adjoining Block 16/21 to the east.
		Additional drilling north and updip of this cluster may be warranted, as the oil column covering this broad area appears to be of potential significance.
	www.oilexco.com /projects/north-sea/north-sea-expl-moray.html (2510 words)

	North Sea oil is declining
		With severe wind gusts and waves 30 metres high, the North Sea has been one of the most challenging areas for oil exploration and recovery.
		Now many of the major fields in the North Sea are in decline and the North Sea is about to lose its prominent role as one of the world's leading oil domains.
		While primary oil demand in European Union (EU) countries is projected to increase by 0.4% per year from now to 2030, North Sea output peaked in 1999 and has been on the decline ever since.
	www.iags.org /n0524043.htm (945 words)

	SRL-2 - North Sea oil slick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is an X-band image of an oil slick experiment conducted in the North Sea, Germany.
		Two types of petroleum oil and six types of oils resembling natural sea surface slicks were poured on the sea surface from ships and a helicopter just before the space shuttle flew over the region.
		The oil spill seen at the uppermost part of the image is about 105 gallons (400 liters) of heavy heating oil and the largest spill is about 58 gallons (220 liters) of oleyl alcohol, resembling a "natural oil" like the remaining five spills used to imitate natural slicks that have occurred offshore from various states.
	southport.jpl.nasa.gov /pio/srl2/xsar/captions/srl2-northsea_cap.html (334 words)

	The North Sea • The Coming Global Oil Crisis
		The failure of the oil majors to sustain drilling and investment in new projects during the oil price slump of late 1977 through 1999 is blamed for the shock fall.
		In a separate report out yesterday, the Royal Bank of Scotland claimed that the UK oil and gas service sector had bounced back from the slump and that prospects were the "most optimistic" for three years.
		North Sea fields were selected for this analysis because high quality data are available for individual oil fields, because the North Sea has been a key factor in increasing non-OPEC oil production over the last 20 years, and because the best available technology is used in the North Sea.
	www.oilcrisis.com /northsea (509 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Norway prepares for dry North Sea
		Norway's once vast oil reserves in the North Sea are dwindling, and the government is facing tough choices when planning for the country's economic future.
		Since oil was discovered on the Norwegian continental shelf in 1971, this small nation has been propelled into the world's third largest oil and gas exporter, and petroleum activities contribute 20% of the gross domestic product (GDP).
		Norway's biggest potential finds are no longer in the North Sea, where oil companies are well established and have very good resources and knowledge of how to get the oil and gas to the surface.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/3622129.stm (756 words)

	British North Sea oil revenue up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		LONDON -- Oil revenue in October from the British North Sea reached its highest average daily level in almost 11 years, a report showed Friday.
		The 11-year high is a result of oil prices nearly 50 percent more than a year ago, plus record monthly production for 1996, according to the Royal Bank of Scotland's latest monthly oil report.
		British oil production increased by 115,990 barrels a day, or 4.6 percent, to average 2.62 million barrels a day in October, vs. 2.50 million the previous month.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/business/96/11/30/britishoil.html (421 words)

	GREENPEACE TOURS NORTH SEA OIL RIGS ON BRENT SPAR ANNIVERSARY
		The Brent Spar is one of 400 oil and gas installations to be decommissioned from the North Sea.
		Continuing on the work of the Brent Spar campaign the new Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, is documenting North Sea oil and gas platforms whose owners have publicly stated that they want to dump their installations at sea.
		In the Northern North Sea, the platforms are in up to 180 metres of water, with future operations in even deeper water (down to 800 metres), and sitting on top of toxic drill cuttings piles (25000 cubic metres under NW Hutton).
	archive.greenpeace.org /~comms/toxics/dumping/jun20.html (1658 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - UK North Sea oil production is collapsing
		While the shock news will have no immediate impact on the 270,000 jobs the North Sea accounts for, the bank warned employment will shrink within two years unless concerted action is taken by government to spur investment.
		Simmons said he wanted more, smart-thinking independent oil companies invited into the North Sea and for the government to force the majors to get on with development or move over.
		In a separate report out, the Royal Bank of Scotland claimed that the UK oil and gas service sector had bounced back from the slump and that prospects were the most optimistic for three years.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nte12209.htm (447 words)

	North Sea
		The North Sea is important to world energy markets because it is Europe's main oil and natural gas producing area.
		The UK North Sea contains proven oil reserves of 4.5 billion barrels, the vast majority of which are in traditional producing basins east of the British Isles.
		In April 1997, the Dutch gas distributor Gasunie confirmed that it is conducting a feasibility study for the construction of a North Sea gas pipeline between Britain and Den Helder, a northern Dutch city.
	www.converger.com /eiacab/northsea.htm (5585 words)

	Oilexco Incorporated • Projects • North Sea Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		North Sea oil and natural gas were first discovered in the 1960s.
		Oil and natural gas extraction in the North Sea's inhospitable climate - cold and windy - and at great depths requires sophisticated offshore technology.
		As the UK's oil fields mature, the industry's focus has been shifting from searching for new oil discoveries to continuing the productivity of mature fields, as well as to developing smaller fields that previously were not considered commercially viable.
	www.oilexco.com /projects/north-sea/north-sea.html (267 words)

	Resource Investor - Energy - North Sea Seeing Oil Price Induced Exploration Boom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		North Sea oil and gas licensing round, finalised last week, saw in excess of 150 exploration licences awarded to a variety of companies, the largest number of licences granted for some forty years.
		Oil and gas exploration in the North Sea is ramping up to a pace not seen for decades as projections of a continuing high oil price make new activity tempting again, hence providing opportunities for investors.
		Significant now as a consequence of the changing nature of the North Sea’s oil and gas prospectivity is the rising share of smaller companies in the sector, as the Super Majors move on and leave keen juniors and mid tier enterprises to tackle what is left.
	www.resourceinvestor.com /?relid=12811 (899 words)

	North Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The North Sea (historically also known as the German Ocean) is a part of the Atlantic Ocean, located between Norway and Denmark in the east, Scotland and England in the west, and Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in the south.
		An offshoot of the North Sea is the Skagerrak, between Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, which connects to the Baltic Sea through the Kattegat, Öresund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt.
		Major rivers that drain into the North Sea include the Forth (at Edinburgh), Elbe (at Cuxhaven), the Weser (at Bremerhaven), the Ems at Emden, the Rhine and Meuse (at Rotterdam), the Scheldt (at Flushing), the Thames, and the Humber (at Hull).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Sea (603 words)

	North Sea oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North Sea oil was discovered in the early 1960s, with the first North Sea oil coming on line in 1971 and being piped ashore at Teesside, England, from 1975, but the fields were not intensively exploited until rising oil prices in the 1980s made exploitation economically feasible.
		In reality, oil seeps had been known from coal beds on either side of the North Sea, but only a limited amount of development had occurred (Eakring oil field, Nottinghamshire, England; Edinburgh Oil Shales (which seem unrelated to later discoveries); and small discoveries in the Netherlands and Northern Germany).
		Chalk oil - The first major oil discovery was in 1969 by Phillips in the Ekofisk field of the Central North Sea (56°30'N 3°10'E).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Sea_oil (2469 words)

	Forbes.com: ANALYSIS-UK faces future without North Sea oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Oil output is set to halve in less than a decade from now if current rates of production continue.
		Indeed, the UK economy is less dependent on oil than it was 30 years ago because of a decline in manufacturing, better energy efficiency and a higher share of renewable sources such as wind and hydropower in the energy mix.
		And the amount of oil used relative to GDP is falling.
	www.forbes.com /markets/newswire/2004/01/14/rtr1210361.html (898 words)

	North Sea Oil Production and its Relationship to Global Oil Production \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News ...
		Oil supply optimists, such as Michael Lynch and Daniel Yergin, base their optimism for increasing future global oil production on reserves estimates provided in Oil and Gas Journal and World Oil, as well as results from the most recent global oil resource assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
		I’ve been particularly interested in oil production from the North/Norwegian Seas for a long time and I wrote a paper in 1999 on North Sea oil production, which can still be found on the Internet (“The Impact of Declining Major North Sea Oil Fields Upon Future North Sea Production”).
		Rapid and intense oil development of the Campos Basin (Brazil), deepwater Gulf of Mexico, deepwaters off West Africa, Russia and the Caspian Sea should cause global oil production to increase for a few more years, but production increases in those regions will be followed by fairly rapid production declines.
	www.energybulletin.net /17262.html (967 words)

	The Making of Oil - Rise and Fall of the North Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Today, North Sea oil lies under 300 feet of water, and a mile or more below the sea floor.
		But the oil was formed over millions of years in a dramatically different place....
		No two fields are exactly the same, but all owe their birth to the rise and fall of sea level over millions of years.
	www.seed.slb.com /en/scictr/watch/makingoi/birth/nsea.htm (183 words)

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