Peterhead skipper Peter Bruce said conservationists wanted to turn the North Sea into an aquarium.
' That's partly because some oil-producing regions, like Mexico and the North Sea, are declining.
Most UK gas still comes from the North Sea but production has declined faster than expected.
The North Sea foam which swept into Aberdeen during storms on Tuesday has now cleared.
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In the North Sea it has declined by 6% a year on average since 1999.
Production continues to fall in once-prolific spots such as Russia, Mexico and the North Sea.
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The company is now looking to new prospects in the Mediterranean and the North Sea.
But the North Sea's declining production can no longer be relied upon to meet demand (see chart).
Ministers had believed that, as the North Sea ran down, new import infrastructure would bridge any gaps.
For Statoil, Halliburton will develop advanced systems to recover oil from aging fields in the North Sea.
After peaking in 2001, production in the North Sea, Europe's largest reserve of oil and gas, plunged.
Other, smaller craters in the North Sea and Ukraine have been prayed in aid of this theory.
There's the higher tax recently imposed by the Chancellor on gas taken out of the North Sea.
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"These measures are needed to avoid extinction of cod in the North Sea, " said a commission spokesman.
Today represents an exciting milestone as we work together to create an exciting future in the North Sea.
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The crew of another Super Puma helicopter ditched in the North Sea in May after a gearbox failure.
Friends of the Earth Scotland said the spill showed the dangers of offshore drilling in the North Sea.
Over the next month what was left of the armada was pursued along the North Sea and out into the Atlantic.
The development of steam-trawling boats meant abundant supplies of white fish from the North Sea were readily available in unprecedented quantities.
Hayward said the environment in the North Sea is very different from that in the Gulf of Mexico.
But he was forced to abandon his plan to sail across the North Sea after authorities raised safety issues.
British fishing industry representatives had warned that severe quotas in the North Sea could wipe out traditional fishing communities.
And those losses are coming more quickly than predicted, primarily in the once-prodigious oil fields of the North Sea.
The site was chosen on the orders of Winston Churchill, who feared a German attack across the North Sea.
In February another Super Puma operated by BP crashed in the North Sea.
The annual harvest, including fish farms, amounts to about 2m tonnes or roughly twice the catch from the North Sea.
The crew often consisted of fishermen who plied the North Sea in winter.
Declining supply in the North Sea has been a problem for years, given aging oil fields and infrastructure there.
Meanwhile recent maintenance shutdowns in the North Sea have worsened already declining supplies from ageing fields of Brent crude.
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