A Gasfield's Hollow Promise: The North Sea's Shrinking Jobs Market The fossil fuel industry has long touted its ability to create jobs, a claim often used to justify new drilling ventures like Jackdaw and Rosebank in the North Sea.
But a recent environmental impact assessment by Adura, a joint venture between Shell and Norway's Equinor, reveals that these projects will have an unexpectedly meager impact on employment.
According to the document, only 27 direct full time jobs would be created at the Jackdaw gasfield. To put this number into perspective, it's roughly equivalent to one fifth of a standard London bus's capacity.