Sanjoy Sen: The truth about the North Sea - Britain needs to extract what’s left and pursue long-term alternatives

Sanjoy Sen: The truth about the North Sea - Britain needs to extract what’s left and pursue long-term alternatives

Sanjoy Sen is a chemical engineer. He contested Alyn and Deeside in the 2019 general election. As a 1980s schoolkid in land-locked Derbyshire, I learned North Sea oil would be all be over by the millennium. Instead, I began my Aberdeen career in the year 2000, just as production peaked. This is a sector that has been written off many times before. The North Sea has long been keeping Britain’s lights on with relatively little political interferen…