Demographics Report 2014

The breakdown of non-British nationalities working offshore on the UKCS is provided in Figure 22 below. The followingobservations in comparison to2012havebeenmade:

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•Thegreatest number of non-Britishworkerswas still theNorwegians, followedby theDutch. •The rankings in the top ten for PolishandAmericanworkershave changed,with thenumber of Polish personnel increasingby0.4per cent and thenumber of Americanworkersdecreasingby0.2per cent. •Romanianworkers arenow in the top tenof non-Britishnationalitiesworkingon theUKCS. Thiswas arguablymore likely toappear in the2015 DemographicsReport given the change in immigration legislation,which came into forceon1 January2014, allowingRomaniannationals toworkwithin the EUwithout theprevious restrictions.

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Figure22: TheTopTenNon-BritishNationalitiesWorkingon theUKContinental Shelf

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Nationality

Proportion

No. of Personnel

1.Norwegian

1,729 1,083

16.1% 10.1%

2. Dutch 3. Polish

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514 478 445 273 256 241 191 191

4.8% 4.5% 4.2% 2.5% 2.4% 2.2% 1.8% 1.8%

4. American (USA)

5. Irish

6

6. French 7. Danish

8. Lithuanian 9. Romanian 10. Canadian

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Other

5,124

47.8%

Total Number of Non-BritishEmployees

10,715

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Source: VantagePOB

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