• The oil and gas industry in the United Kingdom employs 440,000 people.
  • 340,000 focus on finding, developing and producing the UK’s own reserves.
  • 100,000 are occupied with supplying goods and services to oil and gas provinces around the world.
  • In 2010, 2.2 million barrels of oil and gas equivalent (boe) per day were produced making the UK the second largest oil producer and third largest gas producer in Europe
  • In the last 40 years, £468 billion has been spent with £300 billion invested in exploration drilling and field developments and £186 billion on production operations.