What will Scotland’s future energy system look like? A tabulation of Scotland’s historical energy production (1850-2020) is very revealing (Fig. 1). It can help decide on near-term future actions that will be needed to maintain supply. In historical terms offshore oil (50%), coal (25%) and offshore gas (20%) are found to have totally dominated Scotland’s […]

Recently each area has been following a different approach (not necessarily closely aligned to their perceived political stances). Following devolution of onshore fracking legislation (e.g. Scotland Act, 2016 Section 47), each region has followed different paths. For example: Scotland: Notwithstanding the Scottish Parliament’s competence to legislate, no new primary legislation has been passed. Scottish Ministers […]

A new analysis demonstrates that the likelihood for successful fracking can be simply judged by the occurrence of previous oil and gas shows. All across the USA those states which proved to be commercially viable for fracking (red names in diagram below) are found to have had high previous conventional gas production. In contrast states […]

Go to Roy’s previous blog 2013 – June 2019 Topics available at previous blog: (19) Oct 2018: Scotland’s energy trilemma (18) Jan 2018: Geddes’ Clydeforth (17) Dec 2017: Twilight years (16) Dec 2017: Radio ecoshock interview on YouTube (15) Sep 2017: The inevitable demise of UK’s offshore oil (13) Feb 2017: The State of the […]