2nd Jun 2022 08:20
(Alliance News) - Shell PLC's Jackdaw gas field in the UK North Sea received final regulatory approval on Wednesday.
UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the decision on the field, which lies 250 kilometres east of Aberdeen.
"We're turbocharging renewables and nuclear, but we are also realistic about our energy needs now," he wrote on Twitter. "Let's source more of the gas we need from British waters to protect energy security."
Environmental campaigners Greenpeace replied on Twitter: "This is desperate and destructive, @KwasiKwarteng. You're not turbocharging renewables, you're turbocharging the climate crisis. The answer is not new oil and gas fields, it's reducing energy waste at home."
At its peak, Jackdaw is expected to deliver 6.5% of all gas production from the UK continental shelf, Shell said, enough energy to heat 1.4 million homes. At the same time, it will account for less than 1% of emissions from the production area, it said.
"We have been, and remain, determined to minimise the environmental effects of the Jackdaw development project, including by reducing atmospheric emissions," the oil major said in its environmental statement, submitted back in February.
The gas condensate field was discovered in 2005 and appraised between 2007 and 2012. It will be developed by Shell affiliate BG International Ltd.
By Tom Waite; [email protected]
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