What is the known volume of oil on the west coast of Scotland?

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Dear Department of Energy and Climate Change,

What is the known volume of oil on the west coast of scotland? The fields include:-
Foinaven, Schiehallion, Clair, Suilven, Strathmore, Solan, and Victory oil and gas fields, etc); Rockall Basin, North East Rockall Basin; West Lewis Basin; Flannan Basin; West Flannan Basin; Hatton Basin; Barra Basin; Stanton Basin; and Sea of the Hebrides – Little Minch Basin. Also The Solway, Clyde and Lorn Firths will be included under the banner of Scottish west coast oil and gas.

The geographical limits of the Scottish Atlantic Margin are defined within the Scottish-Irish marine boundary to the south, the Scottish-Faroese marine boundary to the north, and the Scottish-international waters marine boundary (off Rockall) to the west. Contained within
this boundary is the Faroese-Shetland Basin

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