Ground Gas Solutions

This article is part of the Spinwatch Fracking Portal and project

Ground Gas Solutions (GGS) is a UK environmental monitoring consultancy that is working on shale gas projects in the UK, among other projects. It describes itself as a 'specialised consultancy that has pioneered the use of continuous environmental monitoring techniques for the onshore petroleum sector'.

Activities

Environmental monitoring for Cuadrilla

Ground Gas Solutions works for Cuadrilla, the UK’s best-established hydraulic fracking firm. It provides environmental monitoring at Cuadrilla’s licensed sites around Blackpool.

Managing director Simon Talbot has says shale gas monitoring projects is an exciting new area of work for GGS. The work involves 'continuously monitoring soil gases and groundwater, with specialist sampling and lab testing to characterise the ground gases present at the site. There are a number of phases to each project, beginning with baseline monitoring to establish conditions at each site prior to shallow gas operations being carried out, and followed by continuous monitoring through into the operational drilling and hydraulic fracking phases.”

People

• Simon Talbot - Managing director
• Kristoffer Harries - Operations manager, previously senior geologist
• Andrew Brunton - Geo-Environmental Specialist
• Peter Warman - Innovation Manager
• Joao Dyer - Geo-Environmental Specialist
• John Naylor - Technical director

Affiliations

• All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas - Ground Gas Solutions paid £1200 in fees as an associate member of this APPG in 2013

Resources

• Ground Gas's monitoring approach at onshore petroleum sites was cited in the 2013 Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) report on Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) of Shale in the UK.

Contact

Website: http://www.ground-gassolutions.co.uk