We would love to hear your thoughts about our site and services, please take our survey here.
London South East prides itself on its community spirit, and in order to keep the chat section problem free, we ask all members to follow these simple rules. In these rules, we refer to ourselves as "we", "us", "our". The user of the website is referred to as "you" and "your".
By posting on our share chat boards you are agreeing to the following:
The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. As a user you agree to any information you have entered being stored in a database. You agree that we have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic or board at any time should we see fit. You agree that we have the right to remove any post without notice. You agree that we have the right to suspend your account without notice.
Please note some users may not behave properly and may post content that is misleading, untrue or offensive.
It is not possible for us to fully monitor all content all of the time but where we have actually received notice of any content that is potentially misleading, untrue, offensive, unlawful, infringes third party rights or is potentially in breach of these terms and conditions, then we will review such content, decide whether to remove it from this website and act accordingly.
Premium Members are members that have a premium subscription with London South East. You can subscribe here.
London South East does not endorse such members, and posts should not be construed as advice and represent the opinions of the authors, not those of London South East Ltd, or its affiliates.
Thanks Tony
I AM Not a expert and new to this type ,Diamonds is more my thing ,
But i bought in here as i can see a bigger picture FORMING AT SPEED....... Supply, demand and government will need to do something quick and home grown!! ,UKOG COULD BE PART OF THAT ?
Interesting times ahead
UKOG is not fracking.
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
When fracking was halted in the UK in 2019, ministers said they wouldn't change their minds without "compelling new evidence".
However, the government has said "all options" are on the table as it tries to end UK imports of Russian energy because of the conflict in Ukraine.
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has asked the British Geological Survey (BGS) to consider any changes to the science around the controversial practice.
Fracking firms claim the move is a "tentative first step" to overturning the ban and "exploiting [the] potential" of shale gas.
But other MPs and campaigners have warned against a change in direction. Labour re-stated its opposition to fracking in March when it published its energy policy.
There have been no further announcements about fracking in the government's energy strategy.
WAIT AND SEE
U.S., UAS are combining with another controversial technology – fracking. I personally believe that fracking has net benefits and is being done safely, but there is significant opposition to the technology. A recent report discusses how drones are being used to limit the release of methane from some of the country’s 500,000 fracking wells – something that could both improve safety and efficiency and improve public perception of both technologies.
As a very brief introduction, fracking is used to release natural gas from underground wells. There is gas in the Marcellus Shale deposits, shown below. Pennsylvania has tapped these deposits to great economic benefit while New York has a moratorium on drilling pending environmental studies. The gas, which is about 90% methane, is trapped in the shale and cannot be reached through normal drilling methods. Instead, the well is drilled and a solution primarily made up of water is injected into the shale to fracture it open – hence the term “fracking.” The natural gas is released and trapped for use. Local residents are concerned both that the gas will leak into and contaminate their drinking water and that the fracturing solution will do the same.
Interesting article from US sounds like HH ??
Stevehoops
I wander if we will see a continuous drilling program for Horse Hill of the kind once mooted?
It has been a long time coming!
If this would this be done by UKOG or a farm in would depend on any government funding or if a new CPR was released providing funding or a buy out.
HH now has the potential to become of National importance despite the nay sayers so watch this space.
How long will soaring energy prices last?
Soaring energy prices which threaten the living standards of millions could last up to two years, the boss of the UK's biggest energy supplier has said. Chris O'Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica, said there was "no reason" to expect gas prices would come down "any time soon".
British Gas owner warns of high energy bills for two years
www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-59963650
Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, acknowledged it was a “very, very difficult situation that families face” in the face of a “severe global economic storm” but declined to say what the chancellor would do about it.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, she said:
“This is a very, very serious global inflation spike which is having huge effects around the world.
We have made the cuts to petrol duty and the chancellor is working on what more we can do.
The important thing is getting economic growth up.”
Truss also told Sky News that Britain is facing a “very, very difficult economic situation”, but pushed back against calls for a windfall tax on energy producers, saying they should use their profits to invest more in the UK.
Mr. Speaker, in response to Putin’s barbaric acts in Ukraine and against the Ukrainian people, we need to keep all of our energy options open. We’ve always been clear that the development of shale gas in the UK must be safe and cause minimal disruption and damage to those living and working nearby sites.
This is not a new position. Shale gas and new approaches could be part of our future energy mix, but we need to be led by the science and have the support of local communities. And that was in our general election manifesto, which he and I stood on at the last election. The pause on fracking implemented in November 2019 on the basis of the difficulty in predicting and managing seismic activity caused by fracking, remains in place and we will continue to be led by the science on our approach.
Mr Speaker, we are clear that shale gas is not the solution to near-term issues. It would take years of exploration and development before commercial quantities of shale gas could be produced. Additionally, fracking relies on a continued series of new wells, each of which produces gas for a relatively short time, even if the pools were lifted. There is unlikely to be sufficient quantities of gas available to address the high prices affecting all of Western Europe, and would certainly have no effect on prices in the near term.
As the Business Secretary has said we will continue to back our vital North Sea oil and gas sector to maximise domestic production while transitioning to cheaper, cleaner, home grown power at the same time. Mr Speaker will shortly set out an energy supply strategy which will supercharge our renewable energy and nuclear capacity, as well as supporting our North Sea oil and gas industry.
Published 15 March 2022
DONT LOOK LOOK LIKE IT NOW ONLY A MONTH LATER HMMMMMMMM
Horse Hill Developments Ltd (HHDL) has applied for several permit variations as part of its operations at Horse Hill well site in Surrey.
These are to:
Construct up to 4 new boreholes in addition to the 2 boreholes already constructed;
Use 2 of the 6 boreholes as reinjection wells to support production;
Carry out well treatments such as an acid wash and solvent treatments;
Run 90-day well tests for each of the 4 additional wells before they are either added as production wells at the site, or abandoned;
Undertake an injectivity test within one of the wells (HH-2z) and any other wells as dictated by HHDL;
Incinerate natural gas at a rate not exceeding 10 tonnes per day during production operations. This to continue until it can be demonstrated that the incineration of natural gas is no longer considered Best Available Technique through a cost-benefit analysis.
An Environment Agency spokesperson said:
An environmental permit sets out stringent conditions that all oil and gas sites must adhere to. We will not issue an environmental permit for a site if we consider that activities taking place will cause significant pollution to the environment or harm to human health.
Public consultation lets people and organisations take part in our decision making. We welcome specifically, comments on environmental and health issues and where people have particular local knowledge. We take all relevant comments into account when making our decisions.
When making permit decisions, we use information on the potential environmental and human health impacts of the activity.
In deciding whether or not to issue the permit, the Environment Agency will take into account all relevant considerations and legal requirements.
4TH MARCH 22
(Sharecast News) - UK Oil & Gas announced on Monday that, following the Environment Agency's Horse Hill production consent on 4 May, the North Sea Transition Authority - formerly the Oil and Gas Autho...
SEEMS VERY QUICK
Ineos, a company which produces energy and plastics (a by-product of fracking), claimed recently that fracking could give the UK energy security for 50 years. According to an article in the Telegraph: “Sources said that Ineos's work shows shale gas ‘reserves’ (our italics) in Britain are as rich as those found in parts of the US, where fracking has helped turn the country into a net energy exporter and kept down prices at a time of surging costs in Europe”.
But it must be remembered that ‘reserves’ do not equate to ‘recoverable gas’, and the UK’s geology makes it much harder and more expensive to access
UK Government revives interest in fracking
Lancashire County Councillor Gina Dowding and Lancashire Anti-fracking Nana Tina Rothery express dismay at the UK Government’s renewed interest in the process.
9 5 2022
Residents around Preston New Road and the tiny Lancashire village of Little Plumpton have been here before. In 2015, Lancashire County Council rejected a permit for a shale gas site – where the first full-production fracking would take place in the UK – with local people overjoyed by this decision. Their joy, however, was quashed when the UK Government overturned this decision and the site went into development in 2017. Locals, campaigners and environmentalists protested at the site for 1000 days.
Then, in November 2019, there was outright celebration again at the news of the Government’s moratorium to halt any further fracking due to the ongoing seismic activity it was causing. Yet now, despite the IPCC report urging an end to fossil fuels, the UK Government has again come down in favour of oil and gas lobbyists to order a new report into the impact of fracking.
The people of Preston New Road and the surrounding areas of Blackpool and Preston would say they already know what the outcome would be: more seismic events, ongoing disruption, industrialisation of agricultural land, risks to water sources, a huge surge in road traffic and heavy vehicles, methane burn off or venting and undoubtedly and determinedly, more protests. They’ve been opposing this industry since 2011 and won this fight twice – they’re not going to concede.
So why this sudden resurgence of the fracking industry in the UK? Conservative Party backbench climate sceptics like Steve Baker MP and Lord Frost are championing fracking through the ‘Net Zero Scrutiny Group’. Using the horror of the war in Ukraine and the ban on Russian oil and gas as an excuse to promote ‘home-grown gas and oil’, again. Yet no facts about the shale gas industry have changed; it will still take over a decade to develop a site and produce anything, if indeed anything can be produced with UK geology and population density not suited to the process.
The jobs created, described as ‘fly in – fly out’, will not bring prosperity to locals. Any energy produced would be owned by whichever private company extracts it and then sold on the world market – there is no reality in the claim of ‘UK gas for UK use’ and fracking will not reduce our energy bills, that’s not how the energy market works. And of course, the very real and proven environmental and climate impacts, locally and globally, are still every bit as threatening.
Ineos, a company which produces energy and plastics (a by-product of fracking), claimed recently that fracking could give the UK energy security for 50 years. According to an article in the Telegraph: “Sources said that Ineos's work shows shale gas ‘reserves’ (our italics) in Britain are as rich as those found in parts of the US, where fracking has helped turn the c