RE: Upside31 Oct 2018 10:27
lynthip
You have obviously just joined this bb or you would have read my post from yesterday. More than a few formalities imo.
Once the EWT at HH is complete UKOG basically have to start again in the administrative process.
Exert from the " Onshore oil and gas exploration in the UK: regulation and best practice"
"they start again with the process described above: the landowner permissions and MPA/LPA/DOE planning consent; EA, NRW, SEPA or NIEA consultation; and appropriate environmental permit and HSE/HSENI notification before OGA/DETI will consider approving the development."
For that to happen UKOG have put in a scoping request to SCC as the predicted production has been scoped to just below the flow rate that impacts on EIA Development (see below)
"Based on information acquired to date, once operational, the Site could briefly produce in excess of 500 tonnes of petroleum per day for commercial purposes, the threshold at which the proposal becomes a “Schedule 1 development”3 which means it is “EIA development”4 and must be supported by an Environmental Statement (ES)."
Nothing is certain in Oil & Gas development imo.