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.