Adura says the UK government must approve North Sea production urgently to avoid domestic supply shortages.

Adura chief executive Neil McCulloch says the UK would have limited options in the event of "a gas supply emergency" The owners of the Jackdaw gas platform in the North Sea say it is "hyper critical" that the UK government approves production to avoid the risk of domestic supply shortages this winter. Speaking to BBC News at the field 150 miles east of Aberdeen, Adura chief executive Neil McCulloch said the project was in its final stages and could meet 6% of the UK's gas from 1 October. The industry regulator is considering revised applications for production at Jackdaw, and Adura's Rosebank oil field west of Shetland, after a court ruled that both had been unlawfully approved. Environmental campaigners say this summer's deadly and record-breaking heatwaves demonstrate the need to tackle climate change by rejecting both projects. Campaigners in London last week urge Andy Burnham not to open the North Sea to new projects But McCulloch said with only about eight days of gas storage, the UK would have limited options in the event of "a gas supply emergency." He said this could come in the form of a prolonged period of still, cloudy weather which impeded the generation of wind and solar power, or hostility from "foreign threat actors".