U.K. Ready to Open Up Area Size of Wales for Shale Drilling
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The U.K. government is ready to open an area the size of Wales for shale drilling next year, doubling the space available for exploration.
A licensing round for onshore oil and gas exploration will offer as many as 150 blocks covering about 20,000 square kilometers (7,700 square miles), Simon Toole, head of licensing at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, said today in London. There are about 170 onshore licenses currently.