Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
The amount of oil travelling down the Forties pipeline is about 40% of its previous peak level due to falling production in the North Sea oil fields whilst some of the big North Sea gas fields are off the English coast in the North Sea.
It has been well documented that the people living in the Orkney and Shetland Isles do not want to live in an independent Scotland and they would rather go it alone.
That means that they would be keeping the oil that is delivered to both islands for themselves and keep the taxation they received from the oil producers for themselves.
An independent Scotland would been in a far worse state financially than they are now if that happened.
The electorate in the Orkney and Shetland isles voting heavily in remaining part of the U.K. in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
I'm currently working on an expansion of the Clair field. Although not directly involved myself the company I work for has recently installed expansions to increase output from Foinavon - other companies are expanding fields in the same area. Rosebank is about to kick off, all of these all feed into the West Of Shetland Pipeline (WOSP). Any reason why the typical ranting unionist only ever quotes the Forties pipeline when saying how much condensate is produced by Scottish oil fields?

Shell are about to develop the Jackdaw field 250 Km east of Aberdeen which will peak at a production rate of 40,000 barrels of oil per day equivalent - I suppose that's off the English coast?