Britain's potential new oil bonanza revealed: 4.4BILLION barrels found beneath The Weald in Sussex Hampshire and Kent - but will the Greens let us get at it?

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Official analysis by British Geological Survey reveals billions of barrels

Report was commissioned by Department for Energy and Climate Change

It estimates that there are 4.4billion barrels-worth of oil under Weald Basin

How much of it may be recoverable is not yet known - test drilling will tell

New discovery is a tenth of what has been extracted from North Sea

Report says it's unlikely there's any shale gas potential in the area

Discovery will have implications for politicians and Britain's energy market

New plans to allow energy firms to drill in exchange for £20,000 per well

Green MP Caroline Lucas says fracking on huge scale will be 'disastrous'