Seduced by oil

Next month, Ramco Energy expects to land gas, its first production as operator, from the Seven Heads field in the Celtic Sea, off the south coast of Ireland. By world standards, the new supply is important only to Ramco and to Ireland. But it could all have been very different, even though the founder and executive chairman of Ramco Energy, Stephen Remp, is a fourth-generation US oilman, reports Derek Bamber