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The UK has a number of onshore oilfields mostly discovered after 1980, the largest one being the Wytch Farm field (largest in Europe), discovered in 1973 which contains around 65 million tonnes of oil (479 million barrels).

Although this is tiny compared to the Middle East fields, would its discovery in say 1901 bring forward the date of full oil firing in RN battleships etc?
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