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WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Baltic
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Mediterranean
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Aegean
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Detailed explanation-1: -The North Sea has become western Europe’s most important oil and gas production area, yielding high-quality crude oil with a low-sulfur content.
Detailed explanation-2: -North Sea Brent Crude is a blended light sweet crude oil recovered from the North Sea in the early 1960s. Brent crude oil has relatively low sulfur content and a relatively high gravity on the American Petroleum Institute’s standard scale.
Detailed explanation-3: -Reserves and production The North Sea contains the majority of Europe’s oil reserves and is one of the largest non-OPEC producing regions in the world. While most reserves lie beneath waters belonging to the United Kingdom and Norway, some fields belong to Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany.