The field is located 80 miles west of shetland, and is thought to contain 500 Million Barrels of oil, which makes it the uks largest untapped oil field. But the plan has faced widespread criticism. Last month 50 mps and peers from all major parties raised concerns the oil field could produce 200m tonnes of carbon dioxide. Craig macmahon is Senior Vice President for research at the Energy Consultancy wood mackenzie. I asked him what this means for the uk as an oil producer. The scale of rosebank in a uk perspective is not insignificant. On a global perspective, its much, much smaller. So at peak production levels, maybe in about 2027, 2028, we would expect production between maybe 60,000 and 70,000 barrels per day. If you put that into perspective, i mean, currently oil demand sits at 101 Million Barrels per day on the global scale. So that is to say that rosebank will ultimately contribute significantly less than 0. 1 of supply. From the uk perspective, though, its slightly different.
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Actually been fighting the wagner group in bakhmut and for them wagner are the people who tortured and murdered captured ukrainian soldiers, but who also were formidable battlefield opponents. tell me, do you think this debt is going to make any difference or make any impact on the war in ukraine? well, look, some of the pro wagner social media channels are carrying these doctorates against the people who have done this, that sort of thing. there is a lot of rumour out there aboutjamming of there about jamming of communications there aboutjamming of communications in one or two areas where the remaining factory units are, including belarus. some suggestions that planes have been sent to belarus to take the soldiers out of there. it is a few thousand people probably that we are talking about in belarus. of course, if you
And he s done some bad things, allegedly. i do want to show you guys some of thejoe biden memes. falling up the stairs. why is somebody that i old running the country? i know. like, republican, democrat, it doesn t matter. no one that old should be in charge of a country. i thejoe biden memes like, they get pretty good. does it make a difference? no. does it make me feel slightly better? like, yeah, this guy s running our country. here s a hilarious meme about him. it s funny at first and then you re like, oh, shit, this guy s in charge. the memes are a little over exaggerated but there is some truth to it. i mean, joe biden is old and sleepy, he hasn t done a lot of positive things for the country. i m not in favour of him at all. and donald trump did some great things for the country when he was president and i like his. his platform, his philosophies, but he sjust a little bit too much of a narcissist and he s. he s probably not the best
Sunshine and occasional showers. beautiful weather in south western scotland, the lake district and lancashire into the coast of wales, 18 degrees. but turning a little bit cooler. you can see from the wind direction, from the north and the norwegian sea spreading across the country and bringing showers. 16, i7 country and bringing showers. 16, 17 in scotland and in the south east, around 21 degrees. it will probably hover about 20 degrees in the south for the next few days so this is the bank holiday weekend. elsewhere in the north it is the high teens and you can see a lot of rain icons on the weather map and on the outlook, so changeable weather. but i think bearable temperatures, not too cold just yet. it is too early for that. thanks, tomasz. and that s bbc news at ten. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for