Huge oil find discovered near Gatwick airport

the Scotsman ^ | 4-9-2015 | Scotsman

[thackney]

Since you said that, I had to go look if the Portland stone was related to portland cement.

The name Portland cement was given by Joseph Aspdin in 1824 due to its similarity in colour and its quality when it hardens like Portland stone.Portland stone is white grey limestone in island of Portland, Dorset.

http://www.aboutcivil.org/ordinary-portland-cement.html

The Island of Portland is where this group of sedimentary rock is accessible from the surface.

[Maine Mariner]

“cheap” energy. Surely you jest.

[headstamp 2]

“We already have more than enough coal, oil and gas reserves to fry the planet. Dotting the English countryside with drilling rigs and pipelines to squeeze the last drop of oil out of Britain doesn’t make any sense.”

Guy has his memes mixed up. That was nuclear power that was going to fry the planet. LOL

[headstamp 2]

“It’s time we uncoupled our economy from the dangerous rollercoaster of fossil fuels and invested in the clean technologies that can provide safe and cheap energy for decades to come.”

Whatever that energy is.

[Smokin' Joe]

The more the left screams about global warming the more oil is being discovered.

That's a good point. And the more the price of oil and gas come down, the harder it is to justify the tax subsidies and fiscal losses in 'renewable alternatives' which are less reliable.

It looks like the big discovery here is in the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge section, with lithologies which sound similar to that encountered in the Three Forks and Middle Bakken. Whether the much thicker Kimmeridge section will lend itself as well to production techniques and drilling strategies used in the Williston Basin and how well OIP will translate to BOPD has yet to be determined.

more reading.

[Smokin' Joe]

We already have more than enough coal, oil and gas reserves to fry the planet.

We're gonna need a bigger pan!

[Red Badger]

The City of Portland is where this group of rocks is accessible from the voting booth!...............

[thackney]

Thanks for posting that link Joe, it was interesting to read the comparisons to other plays.

I don’t remember the term “hybrid play”. What does that refer to?

[Smokin' Joe]

I haven't encountered that before, but it appears the Portland is a conventional oil play, whereas the Kimmeridge is an unconventional play, with the oil throughout the possibly discontinuous tight reservoir rock in the formation, much like the Bakken/Three Forks. The combination of unconventional resources and conventional resources may lead to the term 'hybrid' play.

Now if the industry can dodge the bullet of Saudi and otherwise funded anti-fraccers long enough to prove the play, the UK may be more energy independent than previously.

I channel surfed into a program recently where anti-fraccers were blaming the regression of parts of the Mississippi Delta in LA on fraccing...the network? Al-jazeera! (surprise, surprise...)