Rathlin Energy

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Canadian-owned energy company Rathlin Energy UK plans to conduct tests on shale rocks beneath the East Riding of Yorkshire in the UK in summer 2014 to determine whether the formation is capable of being hydraulically fractured” –- the technical name for fracking.

It is wholly owned by Calgary-based Connaught Oil & Gas, a private Canadian company.

Activities

=Licences

In summer 2008, Britain's DECC awarded Rathlin Energy (UK) Limited [Rathlin] a licence (PEDL 183) to search for oil and natural gas north of the Humber from west of Beverley to the North Sea in the east. The licence area is 241,000 acres. Rathlin holds a 100% working interest in the licence and has no partners. Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

The firm had first began drilling in a field off Walkington Heads in Crawberry Hill in February 2012 to look for oil and gas deposits and then began to explore the site at the village of Fosham, near Aldbrough in Holderness. It said an application for environmental permits at a site near Skirlaugh relates to drilling that has already taken place, 'allaying concerns that a third site is being explored'. [1]

People

Board

  • David Montagu-Smith, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Rathlin Energy Limited and Rathlin Energy (UK) Ltd.
  • John Hodgins, CEO, Connaught Oil & Gas Ltd. Director, Rathlin Energy Limited and Rathlin Energy (UK) Ltd.
  • Robert Standley, Director, Rathlin Energy Limited and Rathlin Energy (UK) Ltd.
  • Dermot Nesbitt Director, Rathlin Energy Limited.

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Notes

  1. Holderness residents' ‘fracking fears’ as Rathlin Energy UK say permit application ‘not a new drilling site’, Hull Daily Mail, February 14, 2014, acc 18 March 2014
  2. UKPAC Register, Period 1 March 2012 to 31 May 2012
  3. APPC Register Entry for 1 Sep 2012 to 30 Nov 2012
  4. UKPAC Register, Period 1 December 2012 - 28 February 2013
  5. APPC Register for 1st March 2013 - 31st May 2013
  6. PRCA Public Affairs Register: Consultancies – March to May 2013