The team at the North Sea Transition Authority takes a look back at the last 50 years of oil production in the North Sea, and what the future of North Sea oil might look like In the 1970s–1980s development in the North Sea began with fixed offshore platforms in shallow waters. Production relied on vertical drilling and primary recovery methods and major fields like Brent (UK) and Ekofisk (Norway) were discovered and developed. Since then, oil production in the North Sea has largely flourished, bringing around 154,000 current UK jobs in the offshore energy sector alone. On top of this, […]
