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UK Heavy Oil Developments: Another Billion Barrels to Come

By Steve Brown | Tuesday 20 January 2015


 


The development of heavy oil in the UK goes back further than most people realise. All the way back to 1787, in fact. That was when miners struck a spring of natural bitumen while digging a tunnel for the Coalport Canal; indeed, with a little imagination the “Tar Tunnel” might be described as the UK’s first horizontal production well. 


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