The UK needs to more proactively exploit North Sea oil and gas reserves if it is to cut its reliance on international imports, an energy body has said. (Jane Barlow/PA)
(Picture: PA Archive)A major UK offshore energy body has urged the new prime minister Liz Truss to exploit the nation’s oil and gas reserves to help reduce the country’s reliance on imports.
Offshore Energy UK (OEUK), a body that represents offshore oil and gas firms, said that while it could identify £26 billion of potential fossil fuel projects by 2030, too little of this had actually been approved.
