{"id":9406,"date":"2014-08-06T17:23:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=9406"},"modified":"2014-08-06T17:23:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:23:01","slug":"polish-shale-gas-collapse-provides-stark-warning-to-uk-investors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=9406","title":{"rendered":"Polish shale gas collapse provides stark warning to UK investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Investing in the next big thing early is an investor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dream. Huge capital growth kicks in as the product begins to take off, dividends increase as the company makes heavy profits and the risk initially involved in taking the plunge erodes away. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fracking has been highlighted as potentially being one such investment, but is it worth the risk?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Fracking has been a contentious issue\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1024-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>The potential returns for an investor in the UK fracking industry are undeniably mouth-watering. Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reserves of gas and oil trapped within layers of shale rock could be worth billions of pounds, generating handsome returns for early investors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There certainly is a lot of it &#8211; the British Geological Survey estimates that there are 1,300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas trapped in shale rock beneath just northern England, in the Bowland shale region. If just a fraction of those gas resources are realised at today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prices, they would be worth more than \u00c2\u00a31 trillion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A second report, covering southern England, has highlighted that not only gas deposits but also billions of barrels of shale oil could be unearthed. Unrest in Iraq has spiked oil prices to a dizzying $113 per barrel, which means the potential of these oil based reserves is huge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The UK shale sector as a whole was given a major boost this year. Oil majors such as French firm Total and GDF Suez have backed fracking in the UK by signing funding agreements for drilling. The support sent shares in UK shale gas companies soaring \u00e2\u20ac\u201c early wins for the first set of investors. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9423\" src=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1065-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Could frackers drill under your land?\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1065-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1065-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>With drilling seemingly inevitable, any would-be UK investors can benefit from the dash to shale gas through a number of options and the US has demonstrated that, in favourable geological conditions, commercial shale gas extraction is most definitely possible. Investors be warned though \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the picture from Poland is much less attractive. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Initial estimates by the US Department of Energy showed the largest reserves in Europe at more than 10 times those thought to be in the UK. Wells were drilled and gas extracted, but the fractures in the rock quickly closed, causing gas flow to reduce to a trickle. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The geological conditions were different from those in the US and, earlier this year, Italian oil major Eni was the latest oil major to give up on the Polish shale. A recent US survey slashed the estimate of reserves in the region. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Shale remains a high risk investment therefore. Are you brave enough to back it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Shale might be high risk, but investing in property has always been a safe, long-term option. Capital growth, coupled with rental income, can be an excellent way to store your hard earned money \u00e2\u20ac\u201c be you a private individual or a company. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Talk to a local surveyor about investing in property and find out how they can assist, no-one knows the property industry better:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">www.PropertySurveying.co.uk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SRJ\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 04.08.14<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investing in the next big thing early is an investor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dream. Huge capital growth kicks in as the product begins to take off, dividends increase as the company makes heavy profits and the risk initially involved in taking the plunge erodes away. Fracking has been highlighted as potentially being one such investment, but is it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=9406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polish shale gas collapse provides stark warning to UK investors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9422,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-9406","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Polish shale gas collapse provides stark warning to UK investors - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=9406\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Polish shale gas collapse provides stark warning to UK investors - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Investing in the next big thing early is an investor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dream. 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