The latest concessions that George Osborne has made to the oil and gas industry look likely to be very good news for the North Sea.
By allowing firms to boost the returns they can make on investments in mature fields, the Brown Field Allowance will encourage them to pump fresh funding into assets that may have had a shorter lifespan otherwise.
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