DTI Inquiry into UKCS Indigenous Oil and Gas Exploitation
20th October 2003 publication
This memorandum provides a number of comments on Prof Peter Odell's paper submitted to the Committee in June 2003, and in particular on his three main claims - that the 2003 Energy White Paper fails to reflect the importance
of the wider contribution of North Sea oil and gas to the economy; that the sharp decline in gas production is overstated; and that there needs to be a new institutional emphasis given to the husbanding and exploitation of these
resources.