Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the total amount of (1) oil and (2) gas extracted from the North Sea and then used in the UK for each of the years 2021–22, 2022–3, 2023–24, 2024–25 and 2025–26.
Data are presented in the table below. Production is the amount extracted from the North Sea along with small amounts of onshore production. Refinery receipts represent crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and process oils (i.e. partly refined oils) as received by UK refineries. Receipts can be processed or go into stock for later use at the refinery or exports. Indigenous refinery receipts represent crude oil and NGLs received by refineries from UK production. For gas, due to the interconnected nature of gas pipeline infrastructure and the consequent mixing of UK continental shelf production and imports it is not possible to determine exactly what proportion of indigenously produced gas is used domestically.
| thousand tonnes | |||
| Production | Imports | Refinery receipts | |
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| Total | Indigenous |
2021 | 40,866 | 38,061 | 48,498 | 6,766 |
2022 | 38,166 | 43,019 | 53,736 | 7,220 |
2023 | 33,361 | 41,389 | 51,840 | 6,754 |
2024 | 30,388 | 44,573 | 51,960 | 4,002 |
2025 [provisional] | 31,180 | 40,493 | 48,150 | 4,666 |
| Natural Gas | |
| GWh | |
| Production | Imports |
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2021 | 363,992 | 560,844 |
2022 | 423,226 | 618,291 |
2023 | 383,037 | 494,919 |
2024 | 343,722 | 453,301 |
2025 [provisional] | 332,444 | 463,692 |
Notes.
Source: Energy Trends Tables 3.10 and 4.2
Years. Data in calendar years as published in Energy Trends.