Poland Kills Any Shale Gas Hopes
From the CIRE.PL newsletter today (autotranslated): "As noted by the "Official Legal Newspaper", for the last 12 months the number of licenses for shale gas exploration has fallen by over 30 percent.from 105 to 68, primarily due to the withdrawal of foreign investors. "... citing figures from the Ministry of Environment, 15 groups of companies now have licenses shale companies, while a year ago concessionaires were granted to 21 companies. Those who withdrew were mainly foreign investors who have experience in this field. Recently resigned, among others, are ENI, ExxonMobil, Total, Canadian Oil and Marathon. According to the daily, stagnation also is causing the falling pace of work. During the summer months in Poland were carried out just three new exploratory wells, and in the period January - August was a total of 13 wells. In early September drilling for shale gas concessions in general were not conducted. "As the "DGP", the more experie...