The UK used more gas from Norway than it did from the North Sea in 2021, after gas production within the UK fell “significantly” last year.
Ross Dornan, market intelligence manager at industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), said this marked the first time that supplies from a single other country had been larger than domestic supply.
And with the Russian invasion of Ukraine resulting in countries looking to end their use of oil and gas from Russia, he warned: “If we want to be more reliant on imports we’re going to have to pay the price of that.”
