Overview
- Authorities verified that drilling began last Friday following days of audible rig noises without official acknowledgment.
- The probe operates under a June 2024 permit from Bergamt Südbayern and will determine if commercial production can proceed.
- Energieprojekt Lech Kinsau 1 GmbH, majority-owned by MRH and minority-owned by Genexco, anticipates extracting 400 to 500 million cubic meters of gas.
- Local activists, including Greenpeace Bayern, breached the fenced site and prompted a Criminal Police in Fürstenfeldbruck investigation.
- If successful, the find could supply gas to 10,000–15,000 households over 10–15 years in a country that imports 96 percent of its gas.