Cuadrilla: UK Could Produce Shale Gas in 4 Years in Emergency

Energy consultancy Poyry has estimated it would take up to eight years for a developer to start commercial production in Britain after receiving a licence.

Barriers

As Russia's occupation of the Crimea region has led to the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War, there is increasing urgency for European countries to find alternatives to Russian gas supplies, which arrive via Ukraine.

Last week British Prime Minister David Cameron called the current crisis in Crimea a "wake-up call" and said shale gas was a good opportunity for Europe to move away from Russian gas.

Russia provides around a third of Europe's gas, with most of that going to central and southeastern Europe rather than Britain, but Britain will begin to import gas from Russia under formal contract for the first time this year.

British domestic gas production from the North Sea basin is declining, and it imports most of its gas from Norway or via liquefied natural gas shipments.

North Sea gas production will fall to 19 billion cubic metres (bcm) by 2030 from 108 bcm in 2000, Minister of State for Energy Michael Fallon said at the Chatham House event.


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