Two normally unmanned installations which used to produce gas for Spirit Morecambe Bay will be removed by the largest vessel in the world this year.

We’ve been awarded six new licences in the 32nd licencing round – three in the southern North Sea and three in the central North Sea.

York, a Spirit Energy-owned gas field in the Southern North Sea has been given another three years of life with an additional £13million investment.

Production has been boosted from two North Sea fields following successful drilling campaigns - with the new C6 well at Spirit Energy’s Chiswick field in the Southern North Sea and a new production well at the Chestnut field.