BP Defies Ed Miliband to Reopen North Sea Oil Field
by Richard Eldred 10 August 2025 3:00 PM
BP is reopening the Murlach North Sea oil field for at least ten more years, despite Ed Miliband’s best efforts to halt new fossil fuel projects. The Telegraph has the details.
The energy giant is reviving the Murlach field, which was declared uneconomic and taken out of use in 2004, has now become viable partly due to new technologies.
BP won agreement to reopen Murlach, 120 miles east of Aberdeen, under the previous government and has since been installing equipment, with production potentially restarting next month.
The milestone comes despite efforts by the Energy Secretary to bring an end to new fossil fuel production in the North Sea. Mr Miliband and his predecessors have almost doubled the taxation rate on oil and gas profits and banned the issuing of licences for new exploration and production.
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