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by Christophe » 12/08/11, 11:55

LAW PROPOSITION

to prohibit the exploration and exploitation of rock hydrocarbons and to repeal the exclusive exploration licenses for hydrocarbon mines


http://www.senat.fr/leg/ppl10-775.html

Summary: http://www.mediaterre.org/france/actu,2 ... 02831.html

Law proposal to prohibit the exploration and exploitation of rock hydrocarbons and to repeal the exclusive exploration licenses for hydrocarbon mines, N ° 775, registered with the Presidency of the Senate on July 27, 2011.

The exploitation of shale hydrocarbons, an unconventional hydrocarbon by companies in the energy industrial sector is growing. This is due to the uncertainty about traditional energy sources and their increasing costs. As there is no legislation to date regulating the exploitation of this type of energy resource, companies exploit shale hydrocarbons by taking advantage of conventional petroleum exploitation permits.

This unconventional exploitation of hydrocarbons has existed for more than 10 years in North America and has increasingly serious impacts on the environment and on sustainable development.

On the one hand, this bill attempts to fill in the gaps in legislation relating to the exploration and exploitation of this gas. On the other hand, it proposes modifications as well as restrictions to bring to the law n ° 2011-835 of July 13th.

The drafters of this project consider that Law No. 2011-835 of July 13 is unsatisfactory. It only prohibits the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons by recourse to hydraulic fracturing. However, techniques other than fracking exist which are also dangerous for the environment and for health. This is for example "the technique of" pneumatic fracturing "which consists in injecting not water but compressed air into the bedrock in order to disintegrate it, or in using fracturing by injecting gelled propane (two techniques currently being tested in the United States) ". Moreover, the law fails to define this technique, which constitutes a source of legal uncertainty.

It also allows experimentation to evaluate the hydraulic fracturing technique or other alternative techniques, which undermines the principle of prohibiting recourse to hydraulic fracturing, the subject of this law. Finally, "it does not repeal the disputed permits".

The authors of this preposition of law wish to ban the exploration and exploitation of unconventional hydrocarbons on the national territory, given the environmental and health risks they represent. However, other techniques exist.

A problem arises, it is that there is not yet a distinction between the different types of conventional or non-conventional carbides. It is therefore advisable to explicitly introduce terminology making it possible to identify these shale gases and oils. One of the objects of this bill is to repeal the exclusive licenses to explore for liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon mines to make it possible to distinguish between exploration and exploitation licenses for conventional hydrocarbons from those that are not conventional.

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by dedeleco » 03/09/11, 15:25

The book on shale gas that bothers half-brother Balkany
Friendships with Sarko not useless !!
http://www.rue89.com/planete89/2011/09/ ... any-220063

We will find a way around the law with modifications and another vocabulary !!
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by dedeleco » 03/09/11, 15:44

Finally there could be another financial crisis with these shale gases:

Shale gas: the new subprimes?
The world's largest closed-end economic sector

(better than Madoff ??? with the engineers who are wrong on the reserves !!)
http://schiste.owni.fr/2011/06/28/gaz-d ... zi-arnaqu/
We pass the hot potato ente gogos !!!
Refourger the wells to continue making cash
The herd spirit that manifests itself in the face of shales may end as the subprime crisis.


Read NY Times documents:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/n ... intro.html

the word among independent oil and gas producers is that shale gas drilling is a Ponzi scheme and that it will be difficult for companies to make money in the Marcellus and Haynesville shale formations, which are also known as "plays.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/n ... /p1/a22779

In the e-mail, the Schlumberger official says that the well they have been working on is performing poorly, but that the operator of the well will make money nonetheless by reselling it to another operator based on hype.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/n ... p11/a22741

He also says that the way that Wall Street investment is feeding the shale gas hype is reminiscent of Enron.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/n ... p19/a24620
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by Remundo » 03/09/11, 16:21

Thanks Dede for the links,

Obviously, it's still "the gold rush" 2011 version, with its small batch of 'happy few' and its long procession of underprivileged ... either because the wells are disappointing, or by pure stock market and financial scheming .

However, I'm not the one who will cry for gas bankruptcies, let alone shale :?
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by dedeleco » 03/09/11, 17:51

However, I'm not the one who will cry for gas bankruptcies, let alone shale

Only, the huge bankruptcies of huge speculators, at the other end of the world, fall back on us in economic and financial crises, recessions and suffering !!
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by Remundo » 03/09/11, 19:13

You have to cultivate your own resilience to all of this ...

Clearly, we must free ourselves from the margins of independence rather than cultivating the multiple addictions of modern man.

I admit that for urbanites, it is almost impossible, because the urban way of life is "in essence" the fruit of a myriad of artificial surrealist needs and lifestyles. :?

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by Christophe » 27/03/12, 09:46

The "word" of a government .... is not worth heavy ...

Shale oils: towards an exploration on the Paris Basin?

The interdepartmental mission on unconventional hydrocarbons recommends in its final report to strengthen knowledge on hydraulic fracturing and to explore the possibilities of exploiting shale oils.


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The North American experience would thus have made it possible to identify all the risks incurred and the ways to manage them. "Europe must absolutely benefit from all the lessons learned across the Atlantic". However, the mission considers that France must take into account a different context "(population density, more sensitive environmental impacts on smaller territories, etc.) [which] will in any case impose on future work whatever 'either the nature and the schedule a very restrictive specifications ".

Exploration and why not experimentation

The mission recommends the setting up of a program starting with the collection of data "to know the potential resources and the possible possibility of a clean exploitation". As a first step, it recommends focusing on improving knowledge on shale oils from the Paris Basin, the best known from the drilling already carried out within the framework of oil exploitation. The mission underlines the presence, in this area, of a non-potable water deposit from the Dogger which could constitute a resource for hydraulic fracturing. "The layer targeted by shale oil explorations is above a layer targeted by traditional oil explorations. About six hundred wells, of which very few have been cored, have thus already crossed the Lias; be carried out in the coming months. Discussions with IFPen and BRGM have confirmed that these boreholes can be an opportunity to usefully improve knowledge, provided a complementary program is added to them, "notes the mission. This would involve performing a systematic coring of the Lias and possibly other physical measurements on additional microforages. According to the mission, manufacturers would be ready to participate in such an experiment.

On the other hand, "for shale gas, which is found in less explored areas, and with more troubled geologies, the acquisition of knowledge is more complex. (...) In the south of France, a study could focus on hydrogeological issues (resource / use balance, vulnerability) which, beyond just hydrocarbons, are of great interest in terms of the need / resource and vulnerability balance ”.

A second phase of experimentation involving a limited number of wells with hydraulic fracturing tests is planned, but this "can only start if the legislator and the ad hoc committee authorize it".


Full Article: http://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/ne ... 15267.php4
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by dedeleco » 27/03/12, 14:15

As for nuclear, our supermans, smarter than all the others in the world, will do it until the real disaster !!!
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by Christophe » 27/03/12, 14:20

It seems to me that there is a borehole near Maloche's! We saw him in February 2011, we should ask him if that has changed ...
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