Ineos Shale is rolling out a major seismic survey this summer to find prime sites for fracking across swathes of northern England where it holds licences. Ineos has "fired the starting gun" on its fracking programme by pressing ahead with plans to lodge test drilling applications by the end of the year, as per Press Association. The firm said it is also looking to bolster its team by making six appointments - including a geophysicist, an operations geologist and a commercial director - as it takes steps to scale up the business. Ineos will carry out its seismic survey over the summer, before lodging planning applications for core drilling at the end of the year. It expects to press ahead with core drilling - which establishes whether a site is viable for fracking - in 2017, before submitting a separate planning application to carry out test fracks at the beginning of 2018.
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