Striking Oil - Purely day dreaming.

Give JR a ring, or Dubya, they'll know what to do with it ;)

Tell next door neighbour up the road with the higher garden to stop chucking his old oil on his incinerator. If it keeps on coming, order some buckets and barrels and tell your local refinery to collect or buy your own tanker and a pump and employ a driver then sit back and rake in the cash Sheik D. :-)

Oily

I think you'll find you don't own it, the crown does.

AJH

But assuming the gits didn't drill under my pad.... I can charge BIG commision on every truck / pair of feet that cross my border?

:-)

Just one small problem with this plan....

Lee D

Yes, it's the acre or so of concrete that replaces your house. There are a couple of (still???) active oil wells pumping in Hampshire (near Queen Elizabeth forest), another one near Basingstoke ran dry and now it's a big composting yard.

AJH

Quietly. If the Enviroment Agency got wind, you'd have a massive pollution control bill to deal with.

Or have a panic about the heating oil finding away out of the tank that doesn't involve a trip through the boiler.

I suspect the real problem with the plan is that there ain't no oil!

New ones to be opened?

In message , Lee_D writes

You'll probably find in the small print owner of mineral rights also has right of access for purpose of extraction.

In article , Ian Rawlings writes

Didn't you do geography at school?

Regards,

Simonm.

This normally true and the mineral rights owner might not be the Crown. The same small print should also say something about "making good" and "compensation" but in very vague terms.

I was in the classes, but I wasn't paying attention!

But no, I meant I suspect there's no spring of oil just seeping up to the surface, which was where this thread started.

Fair enough. We used to play cards under the desks at the back sometimes. My class was the first in the history of the school to be given a Saturday morning detention en masse (or so we were told).

On Wytch Farm: I think the Wiki entry is wrong, as I'm sure I remember being taught about it in prep school geog lessons, well before the stated date of discovery, and I certainly saw a PR movie including it when the grammar school class went to visit the Isle of Grain refinery on a school trip. That would've been circa 1973.

Regards,

Simonm.

Yep but not a lot of GEOLOGY!

Store it and wait until it was *really* valuable.

Well, I was taught about Wytch Farm (and a lot of other UK geology) in school geography lessons.

Weren't you?

Regards,

Simonm.

AJH wibbled:

My google powers have failed - where's the one near Basingstoke?

Chilbolton, actually I see it is much nearer Andover than Basingstoke but I never go to Andover!

AJH