Energy Supply: Offshore Industry
(asked on 8th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much and what proportion of national energy demand was met by domestic sources of offshore oil and gas in each month from January to September 2022.
The table below shows the proportion of total UK energy demand met from domestic oil and gas production, alongside production and demand for each month from January to August 2022. Data for September will be published on the 24th of November 2022.
Month | Domestic oil and gas production* (million tonnes of oil equivalent) | Total energy demand (million tonnes of oil equivalent) | Domestic oil and gas production* as a % of total demand |
January 2022 | 7.1 | 17.1 | 41% |
February 2022 | 6.4 | 15.6 | 41% |
March 2022 | 6.9 | 15.5 | 44% |
April 2022 | 6.7 | 14.4 | 46% |
May 2022 | 6.8 | 12.9 | 53% |
June 2022 | 6.2 | 11.9 | 52% |
July 2022 | 6.7 | 12.2 | 55% |
August 2022 [provisional] | 5.5 | 12.2 | 45% |
* Domestic oil and gas production includes a small amount (on average less than 5% per annum) of onshore production which is not separately identified within these monthly data.
Source: Energy Trends Tables 1.1 and 1.2