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21/08/2024

Keep up to date with headlines about UK onshore oil and gas and campaigns around it.

Keep up to date with August 2024’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas.

20/08/2024

Extended interview with Richard Herbert, ceo of Angus Energy, on energy transition, well decommissioning, Balcombe well test, Saltfleetby planning application, water injection at Brockham and more, plus link to transcript

The UK onshore industry needs to raise money to plug and abandon hundreds of redundant oil wells as part of the energy transition, Angus Energy’s chief executive told DrillOrDrop.

12/08/2024

Almost two-thirds of the gas flared onshore in the UK in May 2024 was from one site, at Singleton in West Sussex. Three fields were responsible for more than half the gas vented onshore.

02/08/2024

Proposals to drill for gas and carry out a small-scale frack near the North York Moors National Park would have “significant impacts on the environment”, planners have said.

02/08/2024

Proposals to drill for gas and carry out a small-scale frack near the North York Moors National Park would have “significant impacts on the environment”, planners have said.

31/07/2024

Angus Energy is seeking permission to drill up to four new wells at the UK’s largest onshore producing gas field.

31/07/2024

The government is proposing no changes to national planning policy for onshore oil and gas.

30/07/2024

Plans for gas drilling and small-scale fracking near the North Yorkshire village of Burniston should be assessed for the likely environmental impact, local people unanimously agreed last night.

26/07/2024

Opponents of fracking have been paying tribute to Fylde councillor Julie Brickles, who died yesterday (Thursday 25 July 2024) after a long illness.

18/07/2024

Conservative ministers failed to act to meet UK climate targets, government advisors warned today.

16/07/2024

The recent landmark judgement over the climate impact of oil production is at the centre of the legal challenge, which began today against the UK’s first coal mine for 30 years.

15/07/2024

A gas company has revealed plans to drill an exploration well and carry out a small-scale frack on farmland on the edge of the North York Moors national park.

11/07/2024

Permission for oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds has been quashed following the landmark climate judgement by the Supreme Court last month. Another key decision, to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria, now looks in doubt because of the same judgement.

Permission for oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds has been quashed following the landmark climate judgement by the Supreme Court last month. Another key decision, to allow a new coal mine in …

11/07/2024

Permission for oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds has been quashed following the landmark climate judgement by the Supreme Court last month. Another key decision, to allow a new coal mine in …

09/07/2024

Climate campaigners climbed onto to the roof of a council headquarters today in their campaign to end pension fund investment in fossil fuels.

05/07/2024

Ed Miliband has been appointed secretary of state for energy security and net zero in the new Starmer administration.

03/07/2024

More than twice as many people oppose fracking than support it, according to a government survey published today.

03/07/2024

People living near Cuadrilla’s mothballed fracking site in Lancashire say they are disappointed about the lack of progress on plugging and abandoning the wells and returning the land to farming.

02/07/2024

DrillOrDrop's monthly review of the latest UK onshore oil and gas production.

Production fell at Wressle, the UK’s newest onshore oil producer, and at Saltfleetby, the country’s largest onshore gas producer.

20/06/2024

A progress report on decommissioning Cuadrilla’s fracking site in Lancashire is late, for the second time.

20/06/2024

Today’s judgement in the challenge against oil production at Horse Hill has clarified the law on what must be considered when councils decide on fossil fuel planning applications.

20/06/2024

Campaigners' reaction to Supreme Court judgement on challenge to climate emissions from onshore oil

New oil and gas projects will be more difficult, campaigners said today, following a landmark win at the Supreme Court.

20/06/2024

Reaction from Horse Hill developer, Surrey County Council and levelling up department to Supreme Court judgement on climate emissions from onshore oil

The developer of the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey said it was working to restore planning permission following this morning’s decision by the UK’s highest court.

20/06/2024

Campaigners have won a pivotal legal challenge at the UK’s highest court on the climate impact of fossil fuels.

Campaigners have won a pivotal legal challenge at England’s highest court on the climate impact of fossil fuels.

18/06/2024

Analysis by DrillOrDrop reveals that the West Newton oil and gas field in East Yorkshire has seen more than 15 years of delays, missed deadlines and changing plans.

18/06/2024

Campaigners opposed to proposals for huge gas storage caverns under Larne Lough in Northern Ireland have won their latest legal challenge.

17/06/2024

The latest legal challenge against testing an exploratory oil well at Balcombe in West Sussex will be heard in January 2025.

14/06/2024

Labour has pledged to ban fracking for good and will not issue new oil and gas licences.

13/06/2024

The Supreme Court will hand down its judgment next week on the landmark legal challenge brought by environmental campaigner, Sarah Finch, against Surrey County Council.