	u k oil industry said not permanently damaged the u k offshore oil industry has suffered from last year s collapse in oil prices but should not sustain any permament damage minister of state for energy alick buchanan smith said the drilling diving and supply vessels sectors had been most affected buchanan snith told the house of commons energy committee he noted however that oil companies were still spending six mln stg a day to maintain north sea production he added that a report by the manpower services committee which said jobs were lost in the industry in should be seen in the context of a total workforce of prices of north sea brent grade  dipped to a low of dlrs a barrel last july from a peak of over dlrs the previous november they recovered to around dlrs a barrel after last december s opec meeting and brent traded today around dlrs buchanan smith said the u k has no intention of adopting opec style quotas noting that britian is an oil consuming as well as an oil producing nation reuter 
