RE: "West Sussex could be in crosshairs for13 Sep 2022 16:56
From the man himself. SS Interview with the New Statesman The advantage of the limestones beneath the Weald, says Sanderson, is that “they’re naturally fractured,” meaning expensive and highly controversial fracking is not required. “It all results from the Horse Hill well. That was the first well drilled with modern data acquisition and analysis techniques. I looked at the data from it, and it didn’t fit with the existing model in the Weald, which stated that this Kimmeridge shale rock wasn’t ever buried deep enough to have generated significant volumes of oil. The Horse Hill well showed that to be incorrect. With that information I came to the conclusion that the Kimmeridge limestone is a viable target, the fractures are already there, and that there could well be a very decent prize in that. The rate that we got out was beyond my wildest expectation.