BP announced that the North Sea oil production has dropped by 9%

Europe's second largest oil and gas company British Petroleum has announced that its North Sea oil production has dropped by 9% this year, for the expected rate of 2 times. BP said the company in 2009 in Norway and the United Kingdom, the average oil production of about 320,000 barrels per day, less than 35 million barrels a day last year, production dropped by about 9%. At the same time, the company hopes to maintain in the next 10 years the North Sea oil production was 300,000 barrels per day.

University of Aberdeen, Alex Kemp, Professor of Economics at the oil that, like British Petroleum, Shell Oil Company to do large-scale, the importance of North Sea oil fields is declining. The remaining oil reserves are relatively small, it is difficult to let the oil giants are excited. British Petroleum discovered in 1965 in the North Sea oil fields, according to statistics there are about 3 billion of its barrels.

Jul. 22,2009