Notification of Seismic Surveys – INEOS Upstream Ltd Derbyshire County Council May 2017 Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Justification for Permitted Development 6 3. Environment of the Survey Area 11 4. Survey Methodology 20 5. Summary and Requirements for Proposed Seismic Survey 38 Appendix 1: List of Designations and Sensitivities Appendix 2: Seismic Source Safe Operating Distances and PPV Monitoring Appendix 3: Preliminary Environmental Method Statement Contact Matthew Sheppard
[email protected] May 2017 1. Introduction 1.1 Summary 1.1 This report is submitted to Derbyshire County Council to outline INEOS Upstream Ltd.’s (hereafter INEOS) proposed geophysical (seismic) survey operations in the area shown in Map 1. In total the survey area covers 250.7 km2 (approximately 25,000 ha). Derbyshire County Council is the Mineral Planning Authority (MPA) for 90.8 km2 of the whole survey area. 1.2 This report should be read with the accompanying document “INEOS Shale Seismic Surveying Methodology: East Midlands Seismic Survey 2017” – hereafter termed the Method Statement, which outlines the survey methods to be used and embedded environmental operative measures in place. Environmental operative measures for site specific environmental considerations are outlined in Section 4.6 and Appendices 1-3 of this report. The 3D seismic survey that INEOS proposed is described in Section 4.2 of this report. Map 1: Boundary and Location of Seismic Survey Area 1.3 The proposed survey area is located within INEOS’s Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence areas (PEDLs) 299, 300, 304, 307, 308 and 309 which were awarded to INEOS in July 2016.