As voters ponder a separation from the United Kingdom, the pace of energy M&A is quickening. But the activity masks some fundamental weaknesses and the balloting comes at a sensitive moment for the future of North Sea drilling. Costs are rising, production is falling and exploration has stalled. So 40 years after the Nationalist Party rode the issue of oil revenues to an electoral breakthrough, a newly independent Scotland wouldn’t have much oil to sell.
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