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Quoting MasseyBrown (Reply 11): The Pittsburgh Airport is attempting to demonstrate that air traffic and drilling rigs are compatible in close proximity - so far, so good. |
Quoting MasseyBrown (Reply 11): The Pittsburgh Airport is attempting to demonstrate that air traffic and drilling rigs are compatible in close proximity - so far, so good. |
Quoting cloudboy (Reply 10): Thinking creatively, would it make sense to build a refinery right there? Turn as much of the crude into aviation fuel, and use it right at the airport. This could give BA a significant advantage if it had a nice close by fuel source. |
Quoting cloudboy (Reply 10): Thinking creatively, would it make sense to build a refinery right there? Turn as much of the crude into aviation fuel, and use it right at the airport. |
Quoting MasseyBrown (Reply 11): The Pittsburgh Airport is attempting to demonstrate that air traffic and drilling rigs are compatible in close proximity - so far, so good. |
Quoting aviatorcraig (Reply 16): The NIMBYs in leafy Surrey would be having a collective coronary! |
Quoting cloudboy (Reply 10): Thinking creatively, would it make sense to build a refinery right there? Turn as much of the crude into aviation fuel, and use it right at the airport. |
Quoting Gazdon121 (Reply 20): if any one out there could answer tat would know would airlines get this fuel any cheaper as there be pretty much no cost to transport the oil as it is on the door step? |
Quoting cobra27 (Reply 3): I think it is just a fake news. Suddenly the UK has one of the biggest oil reserves in the world |
Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 8): Even if the recoverable quantity is at the low end of the 5-15m billion barrel upper estimate, this is incredibly significant. |
Quoting par13del (Reply 2): Now BA and its UK premium supporters will have more push to get the airport closed as the oil is more important from a national security perspective than the airport. So in short order, LGW will be closed for oil extraction, LHR will get a single additional runway to maintain its prestigious place in UK aviation |
Quoting JAAlbert (Reply 18): You'd think this would be front page news -- I don't see any other newsite publishing this story ... Odd. |
Quoting Revelation (Reply 9): Now we know why EK is adding the 2nd A380 to LGW! |
Quoting gkirk (Reply 25): The USA have just declared war on Surrey.. |
Quoting Gazdon121 (Reply 20): would airlines get this fuel any cheaper as there be pretty much no cost to transport the oil as it is on the door step? |
Quoting FlyingSicilian (Reply 17): OKC does, and Houston Hobby used to and IIRC DFW has some natty gas |
Quoting flyingclrs727 (Reply 28): Why? DFW is located over the Barnett shale, and lots of oil and gas wells have been drilled there without closing even one runway. I'm surprised that the airport gets royalties. Usually land taken through eminent domain does not include mineral rights. |
Quoting JAAlbert (Reply 18): You'd think this would be front page news -- I don't see any other newsite publishing this story ... Odd. |
Quoting Gazdon121 (Reply 19): would airlines get this fuel any cheaper as there be pretty much no cost to transport the oil as it is on the door step? |
Quoting richierich (Reply 22): Pulling oil from the ground is a multi-step process, and even if the claims below LGW have any validity to them, one could figure years, if not decades, of burearacy and red tape from the government and local NIMBYs before a nodding-donkey is even brought near Gatwick Airport. |
Quoting VV701 (Reply 38): The sentiment behind the above is probably accurate. But only a few miles away from the reported exploration site near LGW are two nodding donkeys. They are working the same oil field as the one being discussed here. Production started in 1987. So the discovery of this field was made decades ago. What has been announced this week is a new appraisal, accurate or otherwise, of the reserves it may contain. The two existing nodding donkeys are at Brockham near Dorking. They only produce about 100 barrels of crude per day. But they have been doing this for over a quarter of a century: |
Quoting Okie (Reply 34): As far as LGW the best I can tell the mineral rights in the UK are owned by the Crown and not individuals. I am not sure how much say so the local Nimby's would have if the Crown would insist on producing the oil. |
Quoting Planeflyer (Reply 40): |