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Rosebank oil field: 300 million barrels of new oil in the UK

The development of a controversial UK oil field has been given the go-ahead.

Rosebank, which lies about 80 miles north-west of Shetland, has been approved by the UK regulators the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA). It's going to be one of the largest untapped oil and gas sites in the UK - containing up to 300 million barrels of oil.

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