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Broadford Bridge Going Green, well pad to be used for geothermal wells????
Approval of the Shell Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea is now “imminent”, according to a newspaper report.
A piece in the Sunday Times reports the approval is on its way following Russia’s decision to cut off gas supplies to several European countries.
An already-delayed giant nuclear plant in southwest England will open a year later than planned and cost up to ?3 billion more than previously thought, French electricity giant EDF said Thursday.
The total cost of Hinkley Point C, which aims to provide seven percent of Britain's total power needs, had already swelled to as much as ?23 billion and had been due to begin generation in June 2026, already well behind schedule.
Hinkley Point is Britain's first new nuclear power plant in more than two decades.
"The start of electricity generation for Unit 1 is targeted for June 2027, the risk of further delay of the two units is assessed at 15 months, assuming the absence of a new pandemic wave and no additional effects of the war in Ukraine," EDF said in a statement adding that costs were now estimated between ?25 billion ($31 billion, 30 billion euros) and ?26 billion.
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Europe admits it’ll have to burn more coal as it tries to wean itself off Russian energy
PUBLISHED FRI, MAY 20 20221:16 AM EDT
Supply of Russian gas could end as soon as on Friday, views Gasum
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Uk will have no choice ,either buy expensive from USA ,MIDDLE EAST /Africa or utilize the limited resource's it has here to off set spiral cost of imports ,all options will be pursued .Simply have no choice. HH could do very well here from the tatters it was FEW months ago.
opportunity knocks.
Global is the key here .
Legal.. That is why I said Government funding watch this space! Gla.
I don’t think you are quite getting my point. If the Gov is now reconsidering fracking (which they are) can you imagine how positive it will be towards to onshore production where no fracking is required.
That sounds great, unfortunately the government and the geology don’t share the same view…
I’m definitely up for fracking, most people I know think we should exploit what we have in the UK.
You say that, but you can hear the anger in the audience on Questiontime.
No chance of it getting a second wind
Fracking… what a laugh, that ship has sailed and came to nothing, and as far as ukog is concerned it hasn’t got a frackable asset…and there’s of it getting a second wind when there’s oil and gas left untapped in the North Sea, If the Loxley appeal is won it will create a short term spike, thats probably the next chance to make some gains here…
Wish it had!
Looks ****e to me. It's gone up 0.2p
https://www.lse.co.uk/ShareChart.asp?sharechart=UKOG&share=Uk-Oil-and-Gas&chart=historical
3 month chart very healthy:)
Cheers Penguins.
My knowledge of it (you may have guessed, heheh) is quite basic, but even I am perplexed that some insist on using the 'frack' word.
My feeling is that those are Swampies wanting to mislead others, or others who want to mislead (and antagonise) them.
;)
Fracking is a non starter for political reason and the most important, the geology, so forget about it and back conventional oil…The case for fracking has been weakened? given further oil and gas exploration in the North Sea and to the West of Shetland, and significant growth in renewables’ contribution to the UK’s energy mix The implication is that because fracking works in the US, it must also work here. In fact, the UK’s geological history suggests this is probably wrong. Fracking for gas will not work in the UK, according to research carried out at Heriot-Watt university.
Prof John Underhill said the geology of the British Isles will not support it.
Prof Underhill is Heriot-Watt's chief scientist and professor of exploration geoscience.
He said the rocks containing shale deposits in the UK are riddled with fractures.
They are "like a pane of shattered glass" and will make large scale fracking unviable.
BTW,
Should have added 'open' to the description of fractures where I haven't put 'closed.
JUST RESEARCH
Skwizz,
Of course. To start with frackng is done from the well to be produced, injection is done from a remote well.
But in a fractured reservoir it is difficult to predict where injected water might go as it will preferentially travel through the fractures than the matrix (the main rock body).
Fracking uses much greater quantities of fluid at high pressure and there's added material (proppant) included to 'prop' open newly formed fractures. If there are already fractures that's where the frack might 'disappear'. The aim is to open up closed fractures and initiate new ones. The water is then expected to be pushed back to the well by oil coming out of the matrix (with a massively greater surface area against the fractures vs the original wellbore) and partial closing of the fractures - though hopefully still propped open.
Injecting the last thing you want is the water preferentially travelling through the fractures to the production well. In an unfractured reservoir the hope is the water will increase pressure in the matrix and also sweep the oil in the matrix towards the well.
Not sure what Tony's analogy is about.
I understand there is a fundamental pressure difference between "Fracking" and pumping water (at a significantly lower pressure) into pre-existing natural fractures.
As Tony mentioned UKOG already fracked ?
No not at all… HH is fractured already , the issue is the kimmeridge is the consistency of Christmas cake and you are after the currants .
If you mess to much the cake between the currents changes to thick dough and blocks the flow of currents
It’s not a hard rock that you can crack & prop open with sand and the oil will flow.
If you use nitrogen lift on a horizontal bore there are enough fractures the nitrogen will go up the fractures rather than your intended exit route
https://greenworld.org.uk/article/nothing-has-changed-uk-government-revives-interest-fracking
Good posts Stevehoops, the situation is, as you say, developing quickly here in the UK:)
Some Excellent and time consuming research there by Stevehoops, he seems on the ball with his politics and geology…