RE: translated press release11 Oct 2018 10:52
"The goal of P gas is to cover about 10 percent of Slovenia's total consumption, which in 2016 amounted to 315 million cubic meters of gas.
Lobbying from the British Embassy and the British-Slovenian Chamber of Commerce has helped a British company that has been trying to obtain permits for gas exploitation in P for years.
Despite the opposition of the surrounding population and the ubiquitous ecological trends, Slovenia should soon receive green light, reports S.
In P, two licenses are expected.
The first refers to gas extraction by hydraulic stimulation of a smaller range.
This would significantly increase the capacity of the existing two wells or prolong their lifetime.
British and Slovenian partners hope that such an intervention will be tolerated without the need for an environmental permit.
The second is a licence for a purification device for raw natural gas and petroleum extraction.
"We expect both processes to be completed as soon as possible," said Geoenergo, a project manager at P, owned by Petrol and Nafta Lendava.
Eight years ago, the British discovered huge reserves of gas in more than three kilometers of deep wells.
It is estimated that P and its surroundings are hiding as much as 11.7 billion cubic meters of gas.
That is why they linked the Slovenian energy giants Petrol and Nafta Lendava who were granted concession and right to perform mining operations.
Ascent Resources should provide funding for project implementation.
Their ultimate aim is to ensure partial self-sufficiency of Slovenia by P gas, or cover about ten percent of total consumption, which in 2016 amounted to 315 million cubic meters of gas.
Gas production in P has been going on for decades.
Gas is mainly supplied by the local industry, and since 2017 untreated gas is being sold to INI in Croatia, which handles it in a new refinery in Međimurje.
In 2015, Slovenian-British partners were already granted permission to install a natural gas purification plant.
However, they joined the nature conservationists from the Alpe Adria Green Slovenia organization that requested the cancellation of the licence.
They were afraid to use the controversial hydraulic fracturing technology (fracking) and that catastrophic consequences for the environment would occur.
The license was then cancelled because the Environmental Agency conducted the procedure under the old regulations, not according to the new directive on integrated pollution control and control."
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