1964

The U.K. Continental Shelf 1848 Act came into force- 1971 The Bituminous 1988 Shale Company in 1851 U.K. exploration licenses Shell Brent were issued for the North Sea built a field is Piper Alpha 2.5 million years ago 2014 tramway Lower found Disaster Carboniferous oil 1999 New research has 1973 120 onshore oil & gas Worked the shales of the 1970 167 men lost shown ice-sheets from Total North Sea oil sites with 250 oil Scottish Lothians, Europe’s their lives in the operating wells Britain and BP Forties & gas production on shale- utilising a west of largest world’s worst producing between Scandinavia Field is the UKCS peaked small port to Edinburgh, mined onshore oil off-shore 20,000 & 25,000 coalescing in the found export the un- & heated in Late 1890s 1967 field comes disaster North Sea from the 2.8 million barrels barrels of oil retorted shale. retorts to produce on stream at equivalent a day start of the Quaternary First well was per day mineral oil mining Wytch Farm, period drilled came to an end Dorset

1973/1974 1600s 1848 1959 1896 Oil Crisis 1995 Sir William Clavell Oil shade was The Kimmeridge hits U.K. converted into First discovery & Bay oilfield was Oil Brent Spar episode 2008 Used the Kimmeridge varnish, grease, production of discovered by Industry Environmental impact of oil shale as fuel for pitch, naptha, dyes, onshore gas in D’Arcy Petroleum The U.K. was the an industry starting to th glass-making & for wax, fertiliser & Heathfield, (BP) World oil 14 largest oil & deal with ageing boiling sea-water to other by-products Sussex 1969 prices rose gas producer in 1914-1945 manufacture salt. infrastructure the world Kimmeridge Oil AMOCO’s The need for Britain 1921-1924 shade to light the Montrose In Europe the to produce its own 1975 streets of Wareham field is U.K. is second oil to help the war Number of found only to Norway with 130 gas lamps small effort became an Cruden Bay in in oil & gas urgent for the U.K. refineries: Aberdeenshire 2014 government & Grangemouth, received the The oil & gas industry, legislation was Scotland; first North Sea offshore & onshore, spent introduced to enable Fawley, south Oil £1.1 billion in exploration, companies to coast & £14.8 billion in capital explore for Stanlow investment & £9.6 billion hydrocarbons more in operating costs readily