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North Sea gas: Government balancing on environmental tightrope as Shell plans drilling in Jackdaw field
: Climate change correspondentTuesday, 11 Jan 2022
Deep in the North Sea, 150 miles directly east of Aberdeen, lies an enormous and as yet undrilled gas field called Jackdaw.
Its owner Shell has described the field as “critical” to its North Sea strategy.
In October 2021 the government’s environmental regulator for the offshore fossil fuel industry rejected Shell’s plans to drill on as-yet unspecified environmental grounds.
But Europe’s largest oil and gas group isn’t giving up, submitting revised proposals and, as a spokesperson told Sky News, continuing to “work with the regulator to explore options around developing the Jackdaw field”.
In a recent report the company referred to Jackdaw as a “critical longevity bridge” and there was a “a finite window in which to economically develop” the field.
The report says that Jackdaw not only allows Shell to “maximise economic recovery” of fossil fuels in the North Sea, but also buys time for the potential development of renewable energy.
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