Warsaw Business Journal: Shale gas exploration struggles to get off the ground

Companies looking for shale gas in Poland are progressing much slower than expected, blaming bureaucracy and uncertainty regarding future tax burdens.

To this day, they have made only 30 vertical drillings, seven fracturing operations, and just two horizontal drillings, according to data from the Ministry of Environment, as reported by Rzeczpospolita.

That’s definitely not enough to launch shale gas production on a large scale within the next two or three years, as is hoped for by Treasury Minister Mikołaj Budzanowski, wrote Rzeczpospolita, citing experts' opinions.  MORE