Wireline Issue 25 Autumn 2013
ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION
FACTS AND FIGURES
Nine new fields came on-stream in 2012 and production boosted the balance of payments by £32 billion
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£6.5 billion
£5 billion
The UK is the third largest producer of gas
Producers paid £6.5 billion in tax and the supply chain paid another £5 billion in corporation and payroll taxes in 2012-13
and second largest producer of oil in Europe
Investing over £13.5 billion £
In 2013
15 new fields are anticipated to come on-stream
45 projects have been approved by the Department of Energy and Climate Change over the last two years
this year in future production, more than any other UK industrial sector
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