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Notice

RH6 0HN, Horse Hill Developments Ltd: environmental permit variation application advertisement - EPR/BB3300XG/V007

Published 22 March 2021

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Details of the application

The Environment Agency has received an application to vary an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 from Horse Hill Developments Ltd.

Environmental permit for onshore oil and gas exploratory operations

Application number

EPR/BB3300XG/V007

Regulated facility type

Mining Waste Operations

Regulated facility address

Horse Hill Well Site
Land off Horse Hill
Hookwood
Horley
Surrey
RH6 0RB

The purpose of the permit variation is to allow for:

  • Construction of up to four (4) new additional boreholes (HH-3/HH-4/HH-5/HH-6) in addition to the current two (2) boreholes (HH-1/HH-2) already constructed at the Horse Hill Well Site;

  • Undertaking well treatments such as an acid wash and solvent treatments;

  • Undertaking a 90 day well test for each of the additional wells (HH-3/HH-4/HH-5/HH-6) before later being added to the portfolio of production wells at the site or being abandoned;

  • Incinerating natural gas at a rate not exceeding 10 tonnes per day during production operations, until such a time that it can be demonstrated that the incineration of natural gas is no longer considered Best Available Technique through a cost benefit analysis.

The variation will also consolidate the permit with permit determined under permit variation application EPR/BB3691NN/V003 to allow for:

  • Harnessing at least one (1) of the six (6) boreholes as a reinjection well for the purpose of providing production support

  • Undertaking an injectivity test within HH-2 (HH-2z)

The following applications from the original application for consolidating the permits with the above have now been withdrawn:

  • Permit Number: EPR/SP3339YS/V002 to allow for a regulated facility type: 1.2 A(1) h) (i) - Loading/Storage/ Treatment etc of Crude Oil

  • EPR/TP3007PZ/A001 to allow for the operation of specified generators with an aggregated capacity of less than 50MWth for the production of electricity for export.

If you have any comments on the application send these by 21 April 2021.

You can comment:

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