UK Oil & Gas plc has progressed its planned Horse Hill-2z (HH-2z) Portland formation water reinjection project in Surrey with the installation of three, shallow, groundwater monitoring boreholes. REDUCE COSTS The water injection programme aims to reduce the field’s operating costs by some £250,000 per year by eliminating “the substantive costs of tankering and disposing produced […]
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Case studies of shale gas sites show low risk to groundwater
A study of impacts on groundwater from shale gas production in northern England found that up to 14% of case areas could potentially be used to produce shale gas. The joint report by the Environment Agency and the British Geological Survey also concluded that groundwater across a district or region would be at low risk […]