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When we landed by helicopter at Rosebank, this oil field was at the centre of a political storm - and set to be in the path of a real one.

We arrived on Wednesday morning, just a few hours after the UK government had granted consent for the production of gas from the Jackdaw field in the North Sea.

But already attention was shifting to this wild and windy patch of the North Atlantic – the next big decision for Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh.

Rosebank is bigger than Jackdaw, it would generate higher greenhouse gas emissions, and it could be far more lucrative for its owners, Adura and Ithaca.

Nicola Boyd loves her job on the Petrojarl Rosebank vessel

This summer, along with a camera crew, I travelled to Jackdaw, 150 miles east of Aberdeen.

Now we were the first journalists to visit Rosebank.

We came here - days before Storm Boelo arrived with strong winds and heavy rain - to scrutinise a controversial project which is at the heart of a national debate about climate change, energy policy and…