Fossil Fuels
(asked on 30th January 2015) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2015 to Question 219852, if he will provide a breakdown by category of his Department's expenditure allocated to oil and gas in the last financial year; and of the purposes and functions of that expenditure.
DECC’s expenditure allocated to Oil and Gas for the financial year 2013/2014 was £2,798k and all of this was channelled into the Oil and Gas Maximising Recovery Programme.
A breakdown giving the purposes and functions within that expenditure is set out in the table below:
Purpose/Function | Amount (£k) |
Geological advice contract | 600 |
Reservoir Engineering/Improved Oil Recovery, Carbon Capture & Storage contract | 600 |
Environmental/Decommissioning/IHR Facilities contract | 500 |
Pilot - Competitiveness | 300 |
Joint Industry R&D projects | 200 |
IT and Data management | 200 |
Other (including currently unforeseeable expenditure on Improved Oil Recovery, resilience, delimitation, Environmental/Decommissioning, metering etc) | 200 |
Unconventional Oil and Gas | 198 |