No deposits found (yet)!
dodano: 2010-08-10
At the meeting of the Senate Committee on National Economy, which took place on Wednesday 28 July participants discussed the problems of conservation and rational management of resource reserves in the context of the New Law on Geological and Mining and the disclosure of potential gas resources in unconventional reservoirs on Polish territory.
Committee chairman Jan Wyrowiński described the presentations of speakers as "a shower of cold water". Already in the first sentence of a presentation of Jacek Jezierski (Chief Geologist, that at this time Poland did not have any of shale gas resources. The estimates reported in the media, saying that Poland may have from 130 million to 4 billion cubic meters of gas, were calculated on the basis of surface deposits of shale and average gas content in the deposit occurring in the United States. There is a lot of shale rock in Poland, which does not mean, however, that the gas stored in them. Jezierski also pointed out that previously granted concessions concern prospecting and exploration rather than mining. In order to encourage investors to study, prices are not being driven up. The mining concession will be, however, negotiated very carefully so The State Treasury may make money from it.
Waldemar Wojcik, vice president of the Polish Oil and Gas added that detailed information about unconventional gas resources in particular areas would be available after completion of exploration drilling, not earlier than 3 to 5 years. He said that some of the areas where there may be gas shale was highly utilized or coincide with the areas of "Natura 2000". It can significantly limit access to deposit or to increase the cost of extraction. In the hall there was full agreement that the attractiveness of shale gas is dependent on the commercial viability of its extraction.
That is not yet possible to precisely predict the expenditure required for development of potential deposits of "shale gas" in our country. All the experts stressed that the case should not be to dismantle the social expectations of this energy source. It should, however, prepare legislation on the fact that large stocks of this type. First of all, by careful work on amending the Law of the mining and geological, but also through changes in the law on land development and investment rules linear. Very reasonable voices on the need for sustainable resource management were heard. If it turns out that in fact we have a lot of gas, we should leave a significant part of the land as a strategic resource for future generations and only secure their subsequent extraction. It happens that the investment plan surfaced, such as roads, do not take into account the value of what is beneath the surface.
From the standpoint of Climate Coalition opposite approach, the evaluation only to what the underground and denial of the value of ecosystems and landscapes on the surface, would be equally dangerous. But judging by the distribution of votes experts present in the courtroom, it will not rather happen.
Waldemar Wojcik, vice president of the Polish Oil and Gas added that detailed information about unconventional gas resources in particular areas would be available after completion of exploration drilling, not earlier than 3 to 5 years. He said that some of the areas where there may be gas shale was highly utilized or coincide with the areas of "Natura 2000". It can significantly limit access to deposit or to increase the cost of extraction. In the hall there was full agreement that the attractiveness of shale gas is dependent on the commercial viability of its extraction.
That is not yet possible to precisely predict the expenditure required for development of potential deposits of "shale gas" in our country. All the experts stressed that the case should not be to dismantle the social expectations of this energy source. It should, however, prepare legislation on the fact that large stocks of this type. First of all, by careful work on amending the Law of the mining and geological, but also through changes in the law on land development and investment rules linear. Very reasonable voices on the need for sustainable resource management were heard. If it turns out that in fact we have a lot of gas, we should leave a significant part of the land as a strategic resource for future generations and only secure their subsequent extraction. It happens that the investment plan surfaced, such as roads, do not take into account the value of what is beneath the surface.
From the standpoint of Climate Coalition opposite approach, the evaluation only to what the underground and denial of the value of ecosystems and landscapes on the surface, would be equally dangerous. But judging by the distribution of votes experts present in the courtroom, it will not rather happen.
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