On 1 April 2010, the UK Cabinet declared the Chagos Archipelago a Marine Protected Area ( MPA ) and prohibited all extractive industry, including fishing and oil and gas exploration.

A subsidiary issue is the Mauritian opposition to the UK Government's declaration of 1 April 2010 that the BIOT is a Marine Protected Area with fishing and extractive industry ( including oil and gas exploration ) prohibited.

Engines that use gases for fuel are called gas engines and those that use liquid hydrocarbons are called oil engines ; however, gasoline engines are also often colloquially referred to as, " gas engines " (" petrol engines " in the UK ).

In previous times they were most often encountered in flour mills and their storage containers, and later in coal mines, but now most commonly in discharged oil tankers and refineries, the most recent being at Buncefield in the UK where the blast wave woke people from its centre.

Economic conditions during the 1970s were becoming more difficult for the UK and many other western economies as a result of the ending of the Bretton Woods Agreement and the 1973 oil shock, and the Heath government in its turn was buffeted by economic adversity and industrial unrest ( notably including confrontation with the coalminers which led to the Three-day week ) towards the end of 1973, and on 7 February 1974 ( with the crisis still ongoing ) Heath called a snap election for 28 February.

The Transition Towns movement originating in the UK has utilised local currencies for re-localisation in the face of energy descent from peak oil and climate change.

Based on mayonnaise, in the UK, it is made with whole eggs, white wine vinegar and oil, with the addition of chopped capers, chopped gherkins, a squeeze of lemon juice and chopped tarragon.

An example can be found in the UK on the East shore of Southampton water, opposite Fawley oil refinery ().

The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd, oil on canvas, 26 inches x 21 inches, 1855 – 64, Tate Gallery, London, England, UK

US Exxon Mobil Corporation, Petrobras, Spain's Repsol YPF, UK gas and oil producer BG Group Plc, and France's Total are the main gas companies present in the country.

* British Benzol, which was one of the largest independent oil distributors in the UK.

He is actually an ex-consul, recently resigned due to diplomatic strains between the UK and Mexico in the aftermath of President Lázaro Cárdenas's 1938 nationalization of the country's oil reserves.

In industrial production, other fats are also commonly used, such as hydrogenated sunflower oil ( known as " pastry fat " in the UK ).

In 2007, McDonalds of UK announced it would start producing biodiesel from the waste oil byproduct of its restaurants.

During the Biodiesel Expo 2006 in the UK, Andrew J. Robertson presented his biodiesel heating oil research from his technical paper and suggested B20 biodiesel could reduce UK household CO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions by 1. 5 million tons per year.

Despite his links to the UK, he was temporarily declared an enemy alien in consequence by the British Government, and his UK oil assets sequestered, though returned with compensation at the end of the War.

At the time, the UK was in the grip of a recession, as a result of the early 1970s energy crisis caused by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ' oil boycott of the West in the aftermath of the 1973 Arab – Israeli War.

Unilever was targeted in 2008 by Greenpeace UK, which criticised the company for buying palm oil from suppliers that are damaging Indonesia's rainforests.

* Fuel protests in the United Kingdom in 2000 were caused by a rise in the price of crude oil combined with already relatively high taxation on road fuel in the UK.

On the cliff west of the village is the BP " nodding donkey " oil pump which has been pumping continually since the late 1950s, making it the oldest working oil pump in the UK.

Due to this development and an oil spill off the coast of Wales, in 1996, questions about the Common Scoter population have been asked in the UK Parliament.

Initially, due to its texture, it could only be processed by hand until it was discovered in that city that by treating it with whale oil, it could be treated by machine The industry boomed (" jute weaver " was a recognised trade occupation in the 1901 UK census ), but this trade had largely ceased by about 1970 due to the appearance of synthetic fibres.

* 1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.

UK production is now concentrated at Gaydon on the former RAF V-bomber airfield.

Restrictions on homebrewing were lifted in the UK in 1963, Australia followed suit in 1972, and the USA in 1978, though individual states were allowed to pass their own laws limiting production.

Bacardi in the UK, despite having no business ties ( in terms of production ) to Cuba today, has decided to re-emphasize its Cuban heritage in recent years.

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

Their enormous commercial success encouraged them to turn out sequel after sequel, and led to an explosion in horror film production in the UK that would last for nearly two decades.

Eastwood warned Osborne that the closure could result in fewer foreign production companies choosing to work in the UK.

UK film production from 1912 to 2003.

Film production in the UK has experienced a number of booms and recessions.

According to a UK Film Council press release of 20 January 2011, £ 1. 115 billion was spent on UK film production during 2010.

Conversely, BBC critic Mark Kermode believes that " the movie industries of Britain and America are inextricably intertwined ", citing numerous examples of how Hollywood provides work to British production staff and studios, whilst Britain enables Hollywood to base their prestigious productions at UK studios.

Its rapid production schedule was inspired by UK series Drop The Dead Donkey, where each episode was written and taped in a single week and scripts were closely based on the real news stories of the preceding seven days.

Apart from testing and analyzing food products during the whole production process to ensure safety and compliance with regulatory standards, trading standards officers ( in the UK ) protect the public from any illegal use or potentially dangerous mis-use of food additives by performing random testing of food products.

Other British companies contributed to a boom in horror film production in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s, including Tigon-British and Amicus, the latter best known for their anthology films such as Dr. Terror's House of Horrors ( 1965 ).

Thyrostatics ( antithyroid drugs ) are drugs that inhibit the production of thyroid hormones, such as carbimazole ( used in UK ) and methimazole ( used in US ), and propylthiouracil.

In 2006, production of HP Sauce and Daddies was transferred from Birmingham, UK to Elst as a result of the acquisition of HP Foods and the subsequent closure of the Aston factory.

Subsequently, Heinz suffered severe supply issues for the ex-HP Foods brands as the Elst factory struggled to integrate production, resulting in significant negative coverage from UK retailers.

The principal production centres in the UK are in Kent ( which produces Kent Goldings hops ) and Worcestershire.

* ICC Records, a UK charitable-status Christian record production and distribution company

In the UK, Printed Motor Works have recently taken over the production of the Flightlink Controls / PML Flightlink ranges of industrial joysticks.

Edward Petherbridge also played Wimsey in the UK production of the Busman's Honeymoon play staged at the Lyric Hammersmith and on tour in 1988, with the role of Harriet being taken by his real-life spouse, Emily Richard.

The UK, in whose occupation zone most of the steel production was located, had argued for a more limited capacity reduction by placing the production ceiling at 12 million tons of steel per year, but had to submit to the will of the U. S., France and the Soviet Union ( which had argued for a 3 million ton limit ).