Nick Grealy has come up with some news on the long-withheld report from the British Geological Survey:
The BGS Assessment of the Bowland Shale will be published, allegedly, by the end of the current Parliamentary session, July 18. A study for DECC on the price impact of shale gas, undertaken by Navigant will be released simultaneously I’m told.
He also says that a representative of the UK Onshore Operators has put UK reserves at 200Tcf, or nearly a century's worth of supply. This is similar to numbers that have been bandied about in the past, but much more than official estimates.