Oil fields west of Shetland are estimated to contain about 20% of the UK's remaining oil reserves.
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi has taken on RBS project finance assets, including power, oil and gas and UK infrastructure.
Oil and Gas UK - the offshore industry body - said oil transported through the Brent pipeline system represented 10% of the UK's North Sea oil production.
The fields affected, and another eight associated platforms, produce about 10% of the UK's oil output.
According to the Office of Fair Trading, about 1.5m homes across the UK, mostly in rural areas, are dependent on heating oil.
Production has started at a recently discovered oil field in the UK Northern North Sea.
One of Japan's major energy companies is making a significant investment in at least 20 UK offshore oil and gas fields.
Talking of wise words, Sir Ian Wood has picked up another award, this one for lifetime achievement and from Oil and Gas UK, the industry body.
One is that it seems to emphasise how little difference oil and gas revenue makes to the UK. Is that really what Mr Moore wants to say?
Close to home, that runs counter to the drive to extract every last drop of oil from under UK (or Scottish) waters.
Married, with two children, Mr Hayward considered going into academia, but instead went to BP in 1982 and was posted first to Aberdeen, home of the UK's North Sea oil boom.
That puts Norway in third place for the value of offshore oil and gas, with the UK in eighth place.
"We use about nine barrels of oil each per year in the UK, " he says.
In fact we had this in the UK when North Sea oil was at its peak.
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Milford Haven is a natural deep water port that handles around a fifth of the UK's energy through oil and gas imports.
The Glasgow analysis is that oil and gas production added 0.4% of contraction to the UK economy last year.
They believe that roughly a third of the oil and gas potential under UK waters still remains to be extracted.
Tesco recently overtook oil giant BP as the UK's largest fuel retailer by volume.
The new "multilateration" monitoring system is a joint initiative by Oil and Gas UK and National Air Traffic Services Ltd (Nats).
As you can see from this chart, yes, the UK does use a lot less oil per head of population.
Tensions over Tehran's alleged attempts to develop nuclear weapons have led to Iran halting oil exports to the UK and France in retaliation for European Union sanctions.
Analysts believe that Clair - along with other developments in the area - could lead to the Atlantic overtaking the North Sea as the UK's biggest oil-producing region within 20 years.
The Westminster government argued the "extremely volatile" nature of oil prices meant they were far better managed in a UK-wide context.
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Following a research degree in earth sciences at Cambridge University, Beth joined the UK Department of Energy, and subsequently the British National Oil Corporation.
He said impacts on water and local air pollution were already covered by the UK's existing "stringent" rules on oil and gas.
He believes Norway's oil reserves give it a bargaining power with the EU that the UK would lack.
Production in the UK fell to the equivalent of 1.55 million barrels of oil per day in 2012, down by 14% from 2011 and by 30% from 2010.
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However, industry body Oil and Gas UK, said it would have a damaging effect on investment and jobs.
The report also showed an increase in the number of UK oil and gas fields sold during the first nine months of the year.
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