Find Oil and Gas expertise in United Kingdom

The UK petroleum industry consists of a few hundred companies involved in the refinement, distribution and the marketing of petroleum and gas products. The UK is consistently a net exporter of both oil and gas, and has benefited immensely since the 1960s from North Sea reserves raking in revenues of more than US$1 trillion.

The UK’s Continental Shelf produced near to a billion barrels of oil in 2009. UK companies are world leaders in many areas of prospecting, developing, exploring and extracting oil and gas internationally.

The UK upstream oil and gas industry generated a turnover of £35 billion in 2012.

The oil and gas industry employed 340,000 people, directly and indirectly, in 2012.