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| − | :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. <ref> [http://www.rathlin-energy.co.uk/content/official-statement Official Statement], Rathlin Energy, 3 March 2014, acc 18 March 2014 | + | :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. <ref> [http://www.rathlin-energy.co.uk/content/official-statement Official Statement], Rathlin Energy, 3 March 2014, acc 18 March 2014 </ref> |
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Revision as of 01:43, 18 March 2014
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.
Contents
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. [1]
Enviromental permits - mission creep?
In March 2014, Rathlin Energy was seeking environmental permits to carry out a series of tests on two wells at Crawberry Hill and West Newton, near Hull. The plans include so-called mini fall-off tests in the Bowland shale rocks, which stretch across the north of England.
Rathlin states that it has no plans to frack at either of the wells and is merely 'assessing the rock’s potential'. It said its main aims were to test two “conventional” reservoirs– ones that would not require fracking – but that it was 'prudent' to test the shale as well. According to The Telegraph:
- Rathlin said the mini fall-off test test would involve pumping up to 10,000 litres of water and potassium chloride into the shale rocks at pressure, “up to the point where the rock begins to be fractured”, to test how it permeates into the rocks.
- A 'mini fall-off test' is also referred to by industry as a 'mini-frac', leading to accusations from the environmental group Greenpeace that Rathlin is 'seeking permission to carry out a fracking test” and 'using its conventional wells as a Trojan horse to creep into this area, without stirring up local opposition'. [2]
The firm had first began drilling in a field off Walkington Heads in Crawberry Hill in Walkington Heads, near Bishop Burton 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'. [3]
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.
Lobbyists
Affiliations
Contact
- Website:
Resources
Notes
- ↑ Official Statement, Rathlin Energy, 3 March 2014, acc 18 March 2014
- ↑ Emily Gosden, Rathlin plans shale tests in northern England, The Telegraph, 3 March 2014, acc 18 March 2014
- ↑ 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
- ↑ UKPAC Register, Period 1 March 2012 to 31 May 2012
- ↑ APPC Register Entry for 1 Sep 2012 to 30 Nov 2012
- ↑ UKPAC Register, Period 1 December 2012 - 28 February 2013
- ↑ APPC Register for 1st March 2013 - 31st May 2013
- ↑ PRCA Public Affairs Register: Consultancies – March to May 2013
