Report | November, 2025

Oil Field Files

 

  • Approving full production for 22 remaining North Sea oil and gas fields would deal a hammer blow to the UK’s ocean wildlife, analysis from Oceana UK finds.
  • Eight of the potential drilling sites are inside or directly next to marine protected areas.
  • Production will threaten rare and internationally important wildlife as well as a large number of commercially important fish species.
  • Full exploitation of just 14 of the fields will create over 900 million tonnes of CO2 emissions – the equivalent to leaving every car in Britain running for six years straight.