Aurora Energy Resources

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Aurora Energy Resources is a private UK oil and gas company based in Aberdeen Scotland. First set up in 2008, it was initially known as Pacific Shelf Limited according to Companies House records.

In recent years Aurora has risen up the ranks of the key players pushing for shale gas exploration in the UK. Following the 14th UK Onshore Licensing Round, it has four Petroleum Exploration and Development Licences (PEDLs) covering ~445 km2 (110,000 acres) in the heart of the Bowland Shale. The area is expected to be Europe's first commercially viable shale gas field and is host to operators such as Cuadrilla Resources.

Fracking plans in West Lancashire for 2018

Aurora's licences include PEDL 164 covering 100km2 of West Lancashire and Merseyside. In January 2018 the firm wrote a letter to local residents in Formby, West Lancashire to inform them of its plans to drill and frack two wells to the north of Great Altcar village, on the edge of Formby. Managing director Ian Roche said Aurora had begun the first stages of applying for planning permission for the site on Altcar Moss, submitting details to Lancashire County Council of its proposals to drill and frack a vertical and separate horizontal well there. The letter said that the site between Higher Moss and Middle Moss Lanes was approximately 850 metre from the nearest properties.[1]

People

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

Directors/ Officers

Former executives and directors

Related firms

  • Aurora Petroleum - crossover of many of same directors

Constituencies that include licences awarded to Aurora in the OGA's 14th round

Aurora owns five shale licenses based in Lancashire.

Companies House details

  • Company no. SC335749
  • Registered office address
The Office, Westfield Estate, Milltimber, Aberdeenshire, AB13 0EX
Company status: Active
Company type: Private limited Company
Incorporated on 3 January 2008

Previous names

Name Period

  • AURORA EXPLORATION (UK) LIMITED 04 Aug 2010 - 20 Dec 2013
  • EDP ONSHORE LIMITED 05 Feb 2008 - 04 Aug 2010
  • PACIFIC SHELF 1485 LIMITED 03 Jan 2008 - 05 Feb 2008

Affiliations

Notes

  1. Ruth Hayhurst, Aurora announces fracking plans in west Lancashire, Drill or Drop, 5 January 2018, accessed 7 January 2018