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Continental Shelf (Gas Shares)

Volume 135: debated on Monday 13 June 1988

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13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what are the prospects for further sales of gas from the United Kingdom continental shelf; and if he will make a statement.

A number of gas sale contracts on the United Kingdom continental shelf have recently been agreed and others are under negotiation. There is a good prospect of gas from the United Kingdom continental shelf meeting our needs well into the second half of the 1990s.