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To: ROCKLOBSTER

It’s an article a couple of years old but lists Euro shale plays.

http://www.epmag.com/Production/The-shale-frenzy-to-Europe_53280

I know someone in the biz who got in early and made a bundle on leases in Poland.


51 posted on 10/23/2012 3:04:29 PM PDT by Rebelbase (The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
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To: Rebelbase; ROCKLOBSTER

Not all see Euro Shale as being nearly as productive as the US.

Why European Shale Is Totally ‘Fracked’
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewhulbert/2012/07/12/why-european-shale-is-totally-fracked/
7/12/2012

Let’s put aside the fact that European rotary rig counts only number around 120 compared to 2,000 in the US, 700 in Canada and 450 in Latin America, or that Europe has no serious in-house fracking expertise, ropey corporate finances, unclear mineral rights and ‘nimbymania’. A 10% fall in European gas demand (2011-12) hardly helps either, but it’s in the political realm that most concern rests to get shale going across Member States.

Despite sitting on 180tcf of shale, France buried the shale idea deeper than their nuclear waste sits in the Champagne region. The Netherlands doesn’t need to bother with shale given they still have Groningen fields to play with. Germany remains clinically schizophrenic on energy, splitting its energy mix between lots of wind and even more lignite coal, using Russian gas to fill any residual (Nord Stream) gaps. That doesn’t leave much room for North-Rhine Westphalia shale plays. Over in the UK, it’s only a handful of Conservative parliamentarians who think shale might offer a British version of the US shale revolution in North West England. Sweden has no such delusions despite sitting on larger (41tcf) prospective reserves. Further North, Norway has played with a very conventional bat so far keeping its 83tcf of shale under wraps; Southern Europe hasn’t even bothered looking. Spain remains plugged into Algerian production, while Italy has been oversupplied with Russian and on-going Libyan deliveries.

more at link


59 posted on 10/24/2012 5:34:46 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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