According to the news headlines.
Is this another scare story?
Don't we pipe the stuff in from Russia?
Isn't this the plot from an episode of Spooks? 🙂
Have you accidentally read a script from Spooks or something?
LOL! Beat me to it 🙂
According to the episode of Coast I watched last night, at least some of our gas comes from Norway.........
that wont affect the peoples republic of swindon as the entire town is powered by the burning of mattresses and blue WKD. Oh the humanity!
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deffinately a spooks episode.... dont worry, the blonde one sorts it out.
I think normally we only have 3-4 weeks supply anyway
I started burning the fencing last weekened to keep warm.
Looks like I'll be moving onto the furniture next.
A natural resource (North sea gas) that could have lasted centuries squandered heating homes with the insulating properties of a super conductor. The only thing that has saved the UK from financial ruin over the last 20 years is running out - what are you going to do now?
What's the fuel and wood situation?
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Would you rely on your country's energy needs being supplied by an unstable manipulative foreign power? What sort of country apart from Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czexh Republic etc would do that?
Oh, bugger.
Hahahah 😆
Brrrrr i'm freezin! 😯
The 8 days thing is because demand is running higher than supply pipes can pipe it in, so the stocks in the UK start to be used up.
What's new? We've never had gas here.
I can supply more if needed.
A lot of it is pumped into resevoirs under the north sea during the summer and used up in the winter. Not sure how on earth they would hve run out already.
We get our gas from a wide vareity of sources about 50% is our own, its a non-story, move along.
well the mad cow disease didn't get me, nor the bird flue, mananged to dodge swine flu, didn't get washed away by the floods, haven't been stranded like the rest of the country in complete turmoil, maybe i'll die of hyperthermia cos i can't run my central heating!
pumped into resevoirs under the north sea during the summer and used up in the winter.
What like big under sea tanks? Thats pretty damn cool! Any links with pics? I like big engineering stuff like that!
What like big under sea tanks?
No - in former oil and gas reservoirs
was wondering when the media would switch from grit salt to gas.
Apparently loads of business negeotiate cheap deals by accepting reduced supply when demand is high, this has happend and all is fine.
Will no one think of the children?!
No - in former oil and gas reservoirs
Well that's disappointing.
Seeing as people here seem to know their stuff I have always wondered just how much damage one of those big gas storage things you see in citys would do if one went bang... Anyone know?
Just more Tory scare mongering. Somehow they are blaming the govt for this even though, AFAIK, gas supply and distribution is in the hands of private enterprise.
Clubber, surely wood burns easier?
We have 14 days worth of storage in the UK including rough under the North Sea. It's feasible that we can run out, however UK is one of the few countries that has a spot market for LNG, so I presume that there will be many boats headed here to unload their cargo for a premium very soon.
We won't run out for domestic use, coal will naturaly overtake gas for generation as the price becomes too high, meaning demand should drop of anyway
I worked on the rough gas platforms many times. It was injecting gas all summer into the reservoir for times like these. There are a number of gas platforms around the UK and we can get more from gas producing nations. Sounds like Government scaremongering, I'm sure we'll be fine. 😕
more media bollox
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Sounds like Government scaremongering
Now you can blame the government for many things but not this FFS
we be alreet , round up all the cows , they fart loads , pleanty of gas. or just another reason to put thre price up , so we um conserve more.
I reckon if we hooked up my mate's arse to the pipeline, it would buy us another day.
We won't run out for domestic use, coal will naturaly overtake gas for generation as the price becomes too high, meaning demand should drop of anyway
Does the story not relate to gas piped into folks' homes?
PHEW, i have electric heating!
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A natural resource (North sea gas) that could have lasted centuries squandered heating homes with the insulating properties of a super conductor. The only thing that has saved the UK from financial ruin over the last 20 years is running out - what are you going to do now?
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go shandy... pmsl... this is the best forum ever.
I have wood!
x2 post!
I say bring back burning the wicker man!!
The NHBC just don't do enough, seriously, minimum standards on new build properties, all wasting a significant quantity of energy.
Perhaps if we all drank more whisky, then we'd all feel a bit warmer. Job done!
The NHBC just don't do enough, seriously, minimum standards on new build properties, all wasting a significant quantity of energy.
Hear hear! All uk building regs and standards are rubbish regarding energy efficiency, as are our enforcement of them by building control and the standards that 95% of architects, builders and subbies. To quote Scottish question time last night, there is no energy poverty throughout Scandinavia as their buildings require such little heating....
i just farted , and manged to boil the water for an egg , by lighting it !!! camon try it
remember this.... what a load of bollocks.... surprise surprise
Britain has only eight days of gas supplies left based on current usage levels, the Conservatives have claimed.
Just to remind everyone who made that claim.
so how many days ago was that claim made exactly?
I bet it was the express scaremongering again.
Still I suppose it gives them something to talk about other than "Britain faces Arctic Blast" or "Britain faces monster hurricanes" or "Britain faces monster drought/flood/plague of locusts" for a change
You know the statement of only having 8 days storage was probably correct, it was the implication that we would run out of gas as a result that was wrong. The key word is "storage" and to put it into context you have to understand what does and does not count as storage. The gas pipelines from the both the Norwegian and UK sectors of the North sea that land in the UK (and which supply the majority of our gas) don't count as storage, the gas pipelines that run to/from continental Europe don't count and the massive LNG import facilities that have been built also don't count. As classic case of a fact being taken out of context and totally misrepresented.
Going forward however the UK does need to invest in gas storage facilities and this will have to be led by the government as there is relatively little profit in gas storage for the Oil companies. They can get much better return on investment elsewhere.
gonefishin - A classic case of a fact being taken out of context and totally misrepresented.
err... otherwise known as scaremongering!
There was no gas in Ambleside today. 😯
Still here in Mid Wales mo fo! 😆
(and trust me after what I just ate I could keep GB going for weeks....)
[i]You know the statement of only having 8 days storage was probably correct[/i]
yes, but only a problem if [i]all[/i] of our external suppliers decide to turn off the taps
You know the statement of only having 8 days storage was probably correctyes, but only a problem if all of our external suppliers decide to turn off the taps
If that happens, we'd have to rely on internal supplies! 😆
Even on the coldest day the distribution network for the south east had another 25% left in capacity. There is no problem with either the capacity or the storage. The Scottish distribution network had another 5% left of its capacity even on the coldest day.
The distribution networks are designed to deal with winters like these.
All is well keep your knickers on!