Shipping Forecast largely autobiographical account of growing up in Liverpool during the 1940s and 1950s, opens with a shipping forecast from this period. In an episode of the BBC sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances", a soon-to-be-sailing Hyacinth Bucket calls over the telephone for an advance shipping forecast, even though the yacht she and her husband Richard are to visit is moored on the Thames near Oxford. Names mentioned (in scene sequence) are: Fisher, German Bight and Cromarty, Dogger and Heligoland (also known as German Bight). In an episode of the BBC sitcom "Ever Decreasing Circles", Howard and Hilda leave their neighbour Paul's house
Long Forties seawater injection system" starting in 1975. By the time BP sold the field in 2003, their reservoir engineers estimated the STOIIP was . Long Forties Long Forties is an area of the northern North Sea that is fairly consistently forty fathoms (240 feet/73 metres) deep. Thus, on a nautical chart with depth shown in fathoms, a long area with many "40" notations can be seen. Long Forties are located between the northeast coast of Scotland and the southwest coast of Norway, centred about 57°N 0°30′E; compare to the Broad Fourteens. The Shipping Forecast area "Forties" is named after the area.