Aurora Energy Resources

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Oil and gas firm based in Aberdeen Scotland. It holds Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence (PEDL) 164 covering 100km2 of West Lancashire and Merseyside.

In January 2018 it wrote to local residents in Formby, West Lancashire to inform them of its plans to drill and frack two wells near the village of Great Altcar, on the edge of Formby.

Managing director, Ian Roche, said Aurora had begun the first stages of applying for planning permission for the proposed site Altcar Moss site, submitting details to Lancashire County Council of proposals to drill and frack a vertical and separate horizontal well at the site.

People

• Ian Roche - Managing director Aurora Petroleum. Panellist at May 2014 Shale Gas World conference discussion: 'What are the planning and environmental permitting considerations for operators?'

Directors/ Officers

• NICOLA PATRICIA HAMILTON, secretary, 17 Dec 2009-
• TRISTAN PAUL CUTLER, director, 31 May 2010-
• LAURENCE WILLIAM KINCH, director, 17 Dec 2009-
• KENNETH GEORGE MCHATTIE, director, 17 Dec 2009-
• IAN PATRICK ROCHE, director, 17 Dec 2009-
• MARGARET ELAINE FERGUS STODDART, director, 17 Dec 2009-

Former executives and directors

• Malcolm Gladwell - former Aurora MD, was consulted as part of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering's June 2012 report 'Shale gas extraction in the UK: a review of hydraulic fracturing'

Related firms

• Aurora Petroleum - crossover of many of same directors

Resources

• Companies House filing for Company no. SC335749