Scottish shale 'a modest play'

Scotland’s Midland Valley holds in-place resource potential of 80 trillion cubic feet of shale gas and six billion barrels of shale oil, according to mid-case estimates from a new government survey.

Mapping prospects: Study looks at Carboniferous shales of central Scotland's Midland Valley
Mapping prospects: Study looks at Carboniferous shales of central Scotland's Midland Valley
Published 30 June 2014, 09:53Updated 11 October 2016, 16:03