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The onshore oil and gas resources in the United Kingdom are located in a number of provinces corresponding to prospective sedimentary basins. Provinces and Basins (from south to north) include the Wessex-Channel Basin, Weald Basin, Worcester Basin, Cheshire Basin, East Midlands Province, West Lancashire Basin, NE England Province, Northumberland-Solway Basin, Midland Valley of Scotland, and ...
Wytch Farm is an oil field and processing facility in the Purbeck district of Dorset, England.It is the largest onshore oil field in Western Europe. [1] The facility, taken over by Perenco in 2011, was previously operated by BP.
Map of oil and gas fields. This list of oil and gas fields of the North Sea contains links to oil and natural gas reservoirs beneath the North Sea.In terms of the oil industry, "North Sea oil" often refers to a larger geographical set, including areas such as the Norwegian Sea and the UK "Atlantic Margin" (west of Shetland) which are not, strictly speaking, part of the North Sea.
In Dorset the search for oil started back in 1935. Between 1958 and 1980 six wells were drilled in Kimmeridge Bay. The first drilling of the Kimmeridge oil field was the Broadbench 1 well to the north of Broadbench, which revealed neither oil nor gas. The second well Broadbench 2, later renamed Kimmeridge 1, was drilled in 1959 and both oil and ...
Oil fields of England (17 P) Oil fields of Scotland (1 C, 37 P) Pages in category "Oil fields of the United Kingdom" The following 15 pages are in this category, out ...
Oil fields of England. Pages in category "Oil fields of England" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
It is the main part of the East Midlands Province oilfield, where thirty three oil fields have been discovered, including areas outside of Lincolnshire. Oil had been discovered by BP at Corringham in May 1958, at 4,400 ft, with a small blowout covering a nearby field. [24] Oil was found at Gainsborough in 1960, Glentworth in 1961, and Torksey in
Shell initially named all of its UK oil fields after seabirds in alphabetical order by discovery – Auk, Brent, Cormorant, Dunlin, Eider, Fulmar and so on. Brent refers to the brent goose, and in turn gave its initials to the geologic subdivisions of the Middle Jurassic-age Brent Group that make up the field: Broom, Rannoch, Etive, Ness and Tarbert formations, with each name representing a ...