An integrated assessment of UK Shale resource distribution based on fundamental analyses of shale mechanical & fluid properties.

在拟议项目中进行的研究将解决与英国页岩气有关的基本问题。即：有多少天然气，它位于何处？利益攸关方对获得新的、经科学校准的资源和储量估计的兴趣将具有巨大的科学、工业和公众利益。政府还将利用这些结果为英国未来20年的能源政策提供信息。与本次电话会议中的其他挑战和行业合作伙伴的定期沟通将至少间隔6个月。受益人行业根据我们目前采用的页岩气资源估计（BGS：Andrews 2014）或Urgano（2017）以及所应用的采收率（名义上为10%），英国似乎有10至50年的潜在天然气供应来自北方英格兰石炭系盆地。假设英国天然气消费量继续保持目前约2.7tcf/年的速度。不能低估缩小这一估计范围的价值。与行业合作伙伴合作，我们可以根据行业获得的新数据，对页岩中孔隙和裂缝系统的当前和不断发展的学术模型进行严格测试。这些模型将用真实的井筒和测试数据重新校准，以提供孔隙和裂缝特性的修正模型。工业和国家的关键是更有效的勘探和开采活动。更少的威尔斯，更少的平台意味着更少的干扰，更少的排放，从而最大限度地减少对环境的影响。政府在制定英国能源政策方面，对英国页岩气及其位置进行科学支持的资源估算对政府具有巨大的价值。二氧化碳排放承诺需要一个基于天然气而不是煤炭和石油的清洁能源政策，以及一种来自北海和爱尔兰海以及英国陆上的本土资源。这减少了与运输有关的排放，以及进口天然气只是将问题转移到别人身上的合理批评。公众作为一个知情团体，我们必须发挥的关键作用之一是从科学专家的角度向公众解释页岩气的主要优点和缺点，以及水力压裂法和潜在的巨大资源可能对工业化和环境的影响，我们确定的可能含有天然气资源的地区。

The research carried out in the proposed project will address to fundamental questions related to UK Shale gas. Namely: How much gas and where is it located? Stakeholder interest in accessing new, scientifically calibrated estimates of resources and reserves will be of immense scientific, industry and public interest. Government will also use these outcomes to inform energy policy in the UK for potentially the next 20 years. Regular communication with the other Challenges in this call and industrial partners will take place at a minimum of 6 month intervals. There will also be formal reporting requirements to the funding bodies.BeneficiariesIndustryDepending on which current shale gas resource estimates we take (BGS: Andrews 2014) or Urgano (2017) and the recovery factor applied (nominally 10%) the UK would appear to have between 10 and 50 years of potential gas supply from the northern England Carboniferous basins. Assuming UK gas consumption continues at the current rate of approximately 2.7tcf/year. The value of narrowing the range on this estimate cannot be understated. Working with industry partners we can critically test current and evolving academic models of pore and fracture systems in shales against new data acquired by industry. The models will be re-calibrated with real well bore and test data to provide revised models of pore and fracture behaviour. The key to industry and the country is more efficient exploration and exploitation activities. Fewer wells, fewer pads equals less disruption, less emissions and consequently minimised environmental impact.GovernmentHaving a scientifically supported range of resource estimates for UK shale gas and its location is of immense value to government in terms of framing UK energy policy going forward. CO2 emission commitments require a cleaner energy policy based on gas rather than coal and oil and a resource that is indigenous from either the North and Irish seas and potentially onshore UK. This mitigates emissions related to transportation and the valid criticism that imported gas is just shifting the problem onto someone else.General PublicOne of the key roles we have to play as an informed group is in explaining to the general public from a scientific expert point of view the key pluses and minuses associated with shale gas and the impact of fracking and a potentially large resource might have on industrialisation and environment in the areas we identify that may contain the gas resources.