To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate she has made of the (a) volume and (b) proportion of oil that is brought ashore by the Forties Pipeline System and transhipped overseas for refining in each year since 2010.
Answered on
23 January 2024
The UK publishes data on the proportion of the oil produced from the UK’s Continental Shelf (UKCS) that is refined within the UK. Data on the proportion that originates from the Forties Pipeline System is not separately published but the Department estimates that exports from the Forties Pipeline System over the last five years (2019 to October 2023) average 89 per cent, which is broadly in line with the published data for the UKCS as a whole.
Five year average UK and FPS disposals of crude oil and natural gas liquids, 2019 to October 2023
Destination (average 2019-Oct 2023) | FPS 5-year average | UK total 5-year average |
Delivered to UK | 1.4 | 6.5 |
percentage | 11% | 17% |
Exports | 11.2 | 32.8 |
percentage | 89% | 83% |
million tonnes |