UPCOMING BOOK · COMING 2027
The North Sea isn't ending. It's changing hands.
Fifty years after first oil, the UK’s greatest industrial basin faces its defining decade. The Basin After the Boom is a clear-eyed account of what happens next — for drilling, for renewables, for Aberdeen, and for everyone whose livelihood is tied to these waters.
- 2027 · Expected release
- Non-fiction · Energy & Business
- UK & North Sea · Setting
INSIDE THE BOOK
What Readers Will Find
PT. 01
The Motive
Why the public conversation about the North Sea has drifted so far from reality, and how the 2014 oil crash and Brexit reshaped Aberdeen and the wider North-East of Scotland.
PT. 02
The Untold Reality
The gap between the government’s renewable energy promises and what is actually being built, and how a fair debate over oil and gas hardened into a moral crusade.
PT. 03
The Reckoning
From the regulator’s rebrand to a windfall tax squeezing a struggling industry: why a mature basin still has plenty left to give, and what the war in Ukraine taught Britain about energy dependency.
PT. 04
The Case for Everyone
Ten concrete reasons the UK oil and gas industry matters far beyond Aberdeen: energy bills, tax revenue, national security, and a credible path to net zero that does not impoverish the country.
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