TY - SER AU - Quinlan,Martin TI - The oil price helps: North Sea KW - Mar del Norte KW - Precios de petróleo N2 - Once again, predictions of the demise of the North Sea oil and gas province have been proved wrong. The statistics for 2004 show a mostly mature, but busy area, with high oil prices supporting incremental developments at older fields and a number of new-field developments. Increasingly, projects are being led by the new breed of specialist operator ER -