IGas Finds Shale Gas Potential

In an operational update provided today, IGas Energy Plc announced that it has encountered a shale gas deposit while drilling at the Ince Marshes site in Cheshire in northwest of England.

In addition to drilling which encountered a net coal thickness in total of around 36 feet in multiple seams, the U.K. developer of coal-bed methane gas fields said that it found a shale section of at least 1,000 feet (304 meters) which continued past total depth.

The company said that gas indications were observed across the interval.

Igas said that the shale section encountered was logged, which helped to identify a number of potentially prospective zones, and these results together with rock samples are also now being analysed. Previous independent analysis suggested a GIIP of up to 4.6 tcf in this area.

The area, referred to locally as the Holywell shale, is part of the Bowland shale.

Cuadrilla Reources said it had found 200 trillion cubic feet of gas in place drilling the Bowland shale at a licence in Lanacashire, north of Igas’s well

Igas also announced that it had completed the coal drilling phase at Doe Green. Wells will be shortly be put on test with indicative flow rates following de-watering expected the end of March.

Source: Igas Energy