Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
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.
Answered by Graham Stuart
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
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his policy is on annual levels of (a) exploration and (b) production of oil and gas on the UK Continental Shelf between 2022-23 and 2024-25.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The North Sea Transition Authority provides data and projections on a calendar year-basis, publishing projections for production but not exploration. The number of exploration wells will depend upon the results of the 33rd Licensing Round, which closes on 12 January 2023.
Production projections can be found here: https://www.nstauthority.co.uk/media/8365/nsta-august-2022-production-projections-plus-ccc-and-beis-demand-projections.xlsx.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the offshore oil and gas workforce employed on contracts requiring a three-week on, three-week off shift pattern.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Government does not collect data which would allow it to make such an estimate.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the number of offshore workers who have left the oil and gas sector for roles on higher salaries in the (a) offshore wind and (b) nuclear industry in the last three years.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Government does not collect data which would allow it to make such estimates.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to estimate the demand for workers in the offshore oil and gas industry in the next two years.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Government has not estimated future demand for workers in the offshore oil and gas industry over the next two years.
The sector’s trade body Offshore Energies UK produces an annual Workforce Insight Report that includes some analysis and discussion of future demand for offshore oil and gas workers. Their 2021 report can be found here : https://oeuk.org.uk/product/workforce-insight-report-2021/.