The U.K. is sitting on a shale gas resource that could dramatically enhance the country's energy security and reduce its dependence on pipeline gas from Norway or Russia. Unfortunately, and despite nearly 50 years of experience developing the resources available offshore on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (otherwise known as the North Sea), the U.K. doesn't have the foot soldiers to exploit a shale gas resource estimated at as much as 1,300 tcf.
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