The UK’s gas supplies were bolstered today following the completion of a £5.5bn (€7.9bn) project to deliver gas from Norway’s Ormen Lange field.

BP today announced a deal to sell its interests in a North Sea gas field and pipeline seen as crucial to the UK’s future energy needs.

Oil giant Shell today pledged to invest an extra $150m (€124m) in the division at the centre of its reserves crisis earlier this year.