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French energy company to explore for oil in northern Jutland
The Danish Energy Agency has given the French energy group Total a concession to explore for oil and gas for six years in northern Jutland
The Danish Energy Agency has given the French energy group Total a concession to explore for oil and gas for six years in Vendsyssel in northern Jutland, reports regional newspaper Nordjyske.dk. The concession covers the entire Vendsyssel region and the north eastern corner of Himmerland, and expires in June 2016. Total has not disclosed when the exploration will start and how it will be executed.
Geologist at the Danish Energy Agency, Katja Scharmann, says: "It's an industry with tough competition. The oil companies are not very forthcoming in saying what they do and how they do it. But one shouldn't expect to suddenly see drilling rigs in various places around Vendsyssel. An exploration is typically divided into stages where the first long period is spent on reviewing existing data. The general public will be informed if and when someone starts drilling."
Large parts of the Vendsyssel subsurface consists of slate, where oil and gas can form under the right pressure and temperature conditions. Normally the oil seeps away from the slate to pockets of lower pressure, from where it is recovered by oil companies.
In recent years, the hunt for oil and gas has intensified, and oil companies are now looking at drilling directly into the slate to recover the oil or gas at an earlier stage.
"Clearly, the slate makes Vendsyssel interesting, but there are also other types of geology in that region that could be interesting," says Katja Scharmann.
Danish energy company DONG Energy has a similar concession in Thy-Mors in Jutland.
Historically, Denmark has only had one onshore source of oil production, dating back to the early 1990s. It was a test facility at Løgumkloster in Jutland, which was abandoned because the oil was flowing too slowly to be worth recovering.
