Ahead of today's announcement on shale oil prospects in southern England's Weald basin, Newsnight took a look at the differences between the shale industry in the US and the sclerotic developments here. Featuring Iain Stewart, it was a pretty balanced piece. The one thing I felt it missed was a view of a production well head.
See it here from 10 mins.
Bishop Hill
The BGS report is available here. Apparently the amount of oil in place is put at 4.4 billion barrels (with the likely range set at 2.2 to 8.6 bbl).
Wow.