UK considers end date for oil E&P

An end date for valid oil production and a halt to new exploration permits are a few of the possible outcomes of the UK's considerations about the future, The Telegraph reports.
Photo: Russell Cheyne/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Russell Cheyne/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

Denmark pretty much declared the raison d'être of its recent North Sea oil policy from December – which sets an end date on all extraction by 2050 yet provides companies with a grace period of viability with a few options left open for new activities until mid-century – to be that other countries would follow the small nation's example and ban future exploration and production of fossil fuels.

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