The European experience in shale gas

Abstract

The article highlights the experience of European Сountries on shale gas, depending on its resources, and legislative approaches to the regulation of its use for energy security across Europe, taking into account environmental requirements. In particular, it is reviewed the actual modern experience of Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, the UK, Germany, and the European Commission’s recommendations, which can be taken into account during realization of similar works in Ukraine, as well as trends of further shale gas by hydraulic fracturing in these countries. Extraction of shale gas has the potential to play an important role in the future energy mix of Europe, especially at higher world prices for hydrocarbons, which requires prior measures of regulation activities of unconventional hydrocarbons. Particular attention is paid to social issues of shale gas projects deployment due to acute setting this issue in Ukraine by public activists.

Keywords

• shale gas
• legislation of european countries
• extraction of unconventional hydrocarbons
• hydraulic fracturing