British Geological Survey to Estimate Shale Gas Deposits in Scotland

The British Geological Survey (BGS) will start a survey to estimate shale gas deposits between Edinburgh and Glasgow after March 2014.

“The intention is to have a look at the Central Lowlands of Scotland after that, the area essentially between Edinburgh and Glasgow, between the two bounding faults of the mountains in the north and the uplands in the south,” BGS’s director of science and technology Mike Stephenson said during an appearance before the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee. 

BGS plans to work on the area once completed the study in Weald. UK’s premier centre for earth science information expects to conclude its analysis on the south east of England by March 2014.

In June, the BGS doubled its estimate of shale gas resources (gas-in-place) in the area between Wexham and Blackpool in the west, and Nottingham and Scarborough in the east. It provided a central estimate for the resource of 1,300 trillion cubic feet (tcf). 

The survey on the south east of England is the second carried out by the BGS, the survey about Scotland will be the third.