Posted on 08/25/2025 5:09:39 AM PDT by RandFan
Trapped in underground rocks, a potential energy resource has eluded generations of British politicians.
It's called shale gas and the method of getting it out of the ground, known as fracking, has proved politically difficult.
Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, has been banned many times by different prime ministers since 2011 over concerns about earthquakes and environmental impacts.
And yet despite this, Reform UK - which is leading in national opinion polls - believe it's worth going after the gas again.
"We've got potentially hundreds of billions of energy treasure in the form of shale gas," Richard Tice, the party's deputy leader and energy spokesperson, says.
"It's grossly financially negligent to a criminal degree to leave that value underground and not to extract it."
The party led by Nigel Farage is telling energy firms to get ready to "drill, baby, drill" if it gets into government after the next general election.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
North Sea oil and gas + environmental regulations = expected outcome
They will repeal those and let rip
But is it feasible or profitable?
“They should perhaps invite US firms?? They have the experience.”
More likely they just JAIL Farage and outlaw Reform UK.
But, if they don’t, they might have a future beyond destitution.
Largest earthquake in England ‘s 1000 years of recorded history - zero point zero Mr Blutarsky
The 1931 Dogger Bank earthquake?
I think you have forgotten about BP.
There is likely nothing there worth drilling or fracking.
Oil and gas do not exist everywhere. If they existed there they would already have been pursued.
And a little bit up the thread there is an announcement of new discovery in the North Sea. I read those articles. They’re talking about a few hundred million barrels of oil equivalent. This is nothing as oil fields go. A serious oil field is tens of billions of barrels. And as soon as you put the word equivalent in there you’re talking about gas more than oil which is less important and priced lower.
The way things like this happen is some wildcatter will perform what they claim is the seismic exploration and announce a discovery and make very clear they get paid to drill, they do not get paid to produce. So they will pitch the results of their study to people who make money from production and hope that that somebody will pay them to drill regardless of results.
This is the oil business. This is the way it has run for decades. As oil becomes more and more scarce you will find more and more of these charlatan types pitching their fake studies.
Don’t do it, it’s too dangerous. Buy from the U.S.
Dogger Bank is in the North Sea not in England. But never post without checking wikipedia, lesson learned.
Yup anyone who has cut their teeth in the Permian basin can frak with the best of them. I worked as a Frac engineer and production optimization geologist for 3 years in the Permian. I hold both engineering and geosci degrees. I got a third master’s in Hydrogeology and moved from frac engineering/ petrogeo to SWD injection wells.
It’s not just the North Sea oil fields. The UK has shale gas just like the Barnet or Eagle Ford Shales.
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/geology-projects/shale-gas/shale-gas-in-the-uk/
[the Carboniferous Bowland–Hodder area in north-west England (Lancashire and the Midlands)
the Carboniferous Midland Valley in Scotland
the Jurassic Weald Basin in south England
the Wessex area in south England]
Agree. They're already locking up Tommy Robinson.
Agree. They're already locking up Tommy Robinson.
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