The UK’s gas imports will increase dramatically over the next 30 years, according to official forecasts, even if all of the existing North Sea reserves are exploited.
The analysis by the Financial Times underlines Britain’s increasing reliance on overseas supplies of energy as the government comes under growing pressure from environmentalists to halt new domestic drilling.
The UK already imports more than half of its gas from countries including Norway, Qatar and Russia and official production and demand forecasts suggest that by 2030, this would rise to nearly 70 per cent, according to the FT’s calculations.
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