UK Opens Onshore Oil, Gas College as Boffins Question Shale Promise
However, in its report – called "The UK's Global Gas Challenge" – the UKERC's researchers stated:
"A proper assessment of UK shale gas production potential requires further research, but at present we would caution against assuming that domestic shale gas can make a contribution to UK gas security until well into the 2020s. The bottom line is that the industry in the UK is still in its infancy and a two-to-three year exploration program is required before we can even begin to answer key questions about flow rates and prospects for commercial development at scale."
The UKERC report also noted that the possibility of domestic shale gas production in the UK has become a contentious issue in spite of "there being very little prospect of significant commercial production until the 2020s" and that UK policy makers "need to pay much greater attention to international developments, because in a globalizing gas market events as far away as in Japan can have a major impact on how the UK sources its gas imports".
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