Tamboran Resources
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Tamboran Resources Limited (“Tamboran”) is a private international exploration company focused on finding and developing unconventional oil and gas resources.
Its stated corporate objective is 'to deliver extraordinary returns to our shareholders by successfully drilling and developing multiple discoveries from our highly prospective portfolio, by leveraging our team’s deep North American unconventional oil and gas experience'.
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Fracking plans for Northern Ireland
Tamboran has controversially been planning to use fracking to extract natural gas in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland since 2011.
In 2014 the company was granted an extension to a High Court injunction to stop protestors getting close to the Belcoo quarry, where they were holding a vigil. According to Tamboran, it was granted the injunction because of 'unlawful incidents'.
Northern Ireland’s environment minister Mark Durkan back then said he would listen to the concerns of Fermanagh residents worried about fracking and that fracking would not happen on his watch “unless there is very strong scientific evidence that it is safe”, which he claimed “simply does not exist at this time”. [1] The company's licence expired in September 2014.
In May 2019 Tamboran announced it was once again seeking an application for a petroleum licence to drill an exploratory borehole at Belcoo.
2019 protests
In June 2019 angry protestors gathered outside Tamboran's PR company Weber Shandwick's Belfast offices in response to Tamboran's renewed bid to frack at Belcoo.
People
- Patrick Elliott, Chairman
- Richard Lane, Deputy Chairman
- Karl Prenderville, Chief Executive Officer, previously commercial director of Tamboran Resources
- Andrew Bursill, Director
Former executives
- Joel Riddle ,Chief Executive Officer
Lobbying and PR companies
Website
In 2019 the company set up a new website for the Belcoo project: http://www.fermanaghnaturalgas.com/
Resources
- Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.
Notes
- ↑ Fracking firm Tamboran granted Belcoo quarry injunction extension, BBC News, 30 July 2014, acc 7 August 2014
- ↑ Register 1st September 2014 - 30th November 2014 APPC, accessed 29 January 2015
- ↑ APPC Register for 1 March 2014 - 31 May 2014
