Examination of Witnesses (Questions 220-221)
CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES
ASSOCIATION
25 JANUARY 2005
Q220 Sir Robert Smith: Do you also buy
wet gas as an industry—there is a chemical feedstock—or
is it all just dry?
Ms Hackitt: Some of our members
do. It is a significant part of their cost, yes.
Q221 Sir Robert Smith: For them, in a
way, encouraging investment in the North Sea to produce more wet
gas is quite useful?
Ms Hackitt: Yes.
Mr Crotty: Believe me, we want
the oil industry to be successful, and we wanted to invest in
the North Sea. We are not looking in any way to undermine that.
Ms Hackitt: I think the point
you make only serves to underline that our industry's interest
in this is actually threefold: feedstock, gas and electricity.
Chairman: I think that on that note we
will finish, but I think we may come back to some of you about
one or two of your answers, particularly about this question of
the choice of suppliers that you have: because I think it would
be useful to get means and things like that. The correspondence
would obviously be published as evidence later on, but on matters
of detail we may wish to come back. Thank you very much for the
evidence you have given.
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