Shale gas exploitation: heavy resistance more difficult road ahead

Obviously, the British are trying to replicate U.S.  shale gas  development experience, but this process is not simple, and resistance from a wide range.
Royal Institute of International Affairs Paul? Stevens professor believes that the British oil and gas services industry is not the United States developed, so the speed of development of shale gas will not be as American fast. In addition, the geological differences also require European countries have adopted different mining techniques, but the British government in the new technology research and development support to the enterprise is not enough.
University of Durham, UK Energy Research Institute director Richard? Davis predicts shale gas development in the United Kingdom to establish the infrastructure needed to be years.frac proppant Professor Stevens also said that compared with the United States, Britain and Europe have more green organizations and local forces against shale gas development, shale gas production is facing such environmental resistance will be greater.
It is worth noting that in most European countries, the mining rights owned by the government, with the United States to implement this mineral resource exploration rights for the privately held different for shale gas resource development serious obstacles. Proceedings bureaucratic and time-consuming resource valuation may become indefinite postponement of exploration and production reasons. In France, the political opposition let  Hydraulic fracturing  shale gas stagnant.
Cuadrilla CEO Francis? Egan said the company in 2011, the British made the assessment of shale gas reserves, according to the current consumption, even if 10% of total reserves mined, with enough English for seven years. And this argument against shale gas has become the laughing stock of the media. British "Guardian" has been mercilessly mocked British shale gas is "Spring Dream." "Financial Times" also stood opposite shale gas development, said 10 percent to the UK's energy will not bring any change in the pattern.
In short, fracturing proppant the shale gas exploration and development is still in its infancy in the UK, only a few mouthfuls of drilling exploration wells. In the U.S., over the past decade shale gas wells drilled approximately 20,000. If the United States as a reference, the UK's shale gas development is still a long way to go, but its potential is still bleak for the UK gas industry has brought hope.