How to Build an Oil Field

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Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In September 2023 permission was given to develop Rosebank, the UK’s largest untapped oil field. Located west of Shetland, the UK government says it will provide energy security in the UK for a whole generation, at a time where we have never felt more insecure about the source of our energy and the cost. But will it?

A feat of modern engineering, with the latest technology used to create it. Once operational, where is all this money, and oil, going to flow? And how does this fit into a commitment to transition from a dependency on fossil fuels to greener alternatives? 

There’s a lot at stake with this new oil field: jobs, investment, income, and oil, of course.

There are so many questions about how oil and gas works in terms of its relationship to the UK, yet surprisingly few clear answers. This programme will help fill in the blanks.

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasule. This podcast finds the world's best
0:47.0	audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. North Sea Oil is again at the center of economic, political and climate debate.
1:00.0	The long discussed Rosebank Oil and Gasfield is run by the Norwegian state energy firm
1:06.4	Equinore. It says this will bring massive investment and jobs to the UK.
1:12.0	In September 2023 the green light was given to develop Rosebank,
1:17.4	the UK's largest untapped oil field. It lies 80 miles west of where I am now, Shetland, far to the north of the Scottish mainland.
1:28.0	The UK government says this oil will provide energy security for a generation at a time when we've never felt more insecure
1:36.2	about the cost and source of our energy? But will it give us that security? And where is the money and the oil going to flow? And how
1:46.2	does tapping a new oil field fit into a commitment to transition from a dependency on
1:51.7	fossil fuels to greener alternatives.
1:55.0	Even the International Energy Agency, not always known for taking a radical stance,
2:00.0	said in 2021 that there could be no new oil fields if the world is to stay within safe levels of global warming.
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