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Don’t expect UK fracking to be cheap or easy, conference told

By Ruth Hayhurst on March 4, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

4th March 2014 Shale UK conference report 2 Fracking shale oil and gas in Britain will be technically and socially challenging, Professor Joe Cartwright, of Oxford University, told the Shale UK conference today. He was one of a series of speakers who spelled out the difficulties facing a UK […]

33,000 shale gas wells in Lancashire, professor estimates

By Ruth Hayhurst on March 4, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

4th March 2014 Shale UK conference report 1 To recover 15 per cent of shale gas from the Upper Bowland Basin in Lancashire would need 33,000 wells on 5,500 pads, an industry conference heard today. The estimate by Andy Aplin, Professor of Unconventional Petroleum Development at Durham University, […]