The East Shetland Basin is a major oil-producing area of the

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between

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...

and

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Oil produced in the UK area is landed at

Sullom Voe Terminal The Sullom Voe Terminal is an oil and gas terminal at Sullom Voe in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. It handles production from oilfields in the North Sea and East Shetland Basin and stores oil before it is transported by tanker. Constructio ...

in the Shetland Islands. Associated gas flows via the FLAGS pipeline to

St Fergus Gas Terminal The St Fergus Gas Terminal is a large gas terminal found near St Fergus, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The other main UK gas terminals are at Bacton, Norfolk and the Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire. History The plant was initially developed by B ...

. The UK East Shetland Basin includes the following oil and gas fields and accumulations: * Alwyn North * Barra * Brent * Broom * Causeway * Cheviot * Cladhan * Conrie * Cormorant * Deveron * Don * Dunbar *

Eider Eiders () are large seaducks in the genus ''Somateria''. The three extant species all breed in the cooler latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. The down feathers of eider ducks, and some other ducks and geese, are used to fill pillows and quil ...

* Ellon * Falcon * Fionn * Grant * Harris * Heather * Hudson * Hutton * Islay * Jura * Kestrel * KrakenLyell *

Magnus Magnus, meaning "Great" in Latin, was used as cognomen of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus in the first century BC. The best-known use of the name during the Roman Empire is for the fourth-century Western Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus. The name gained wid ...

* Merlin * Murchison *

Ninian Ninian is a Christian saint, first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland. For this reason he is known as the Apostle to the Southern Picts, and there are numerous dedicatio ...

* Nuggets * Orlando * Otter * Pelican * Penguin * Playfair * Rhum * Strathspey * Tern *

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* Ythan

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