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Revision as of 12:17, 18 December 2014

Total (ToT) is a French oil and gas company. In January 2014, Total Exploration & Production announced it would invest in fracking exploration in the UK - the first such investment by a major oil company. The move boosted confidence in the sector and its partners' share prices.

Fracking partnership in the UK

Total's licences are for a 240sq km area around the town of Gainsborough, that has been drilled for oil and gas for decades but only recently explored for its shale gas potential.

Total has a 40% share in a licence in the Midlands currently operated by US firm eCorp. Chief executive of eCorp International, John Thrash said: "The entry of this highly respected global shale operator into the UK shale gas exploration effort is a watershed event, not only for the UK, but also, we believe, continental Europe."

The company's partners are a subsidiary of Dart Energy Europe, which has come under attack from environmentalists for applying for coal-bed methane wells in Scotland, plus Egdon Resources UK, eCorp, and IGas, which has been the target of a sustained campaign against by anti-fracking groups at its Barton Moss site in Salford.

Affiliations

People

  • Leon Brittan declared his role as a member of Total's international advisory board until September 2014

Contact

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Notes

  1. Register of All-Party Groups (As at 18 August 2014), parliament.co.uk
  2. Register of All-Party Groups (As at 2013), parliament.co.uk