The flare stack at Cuadrilla’s former fracking site near Blackpool was removed this lunchtime. Opponents of Cuadrilla’s shale ...

Six Just Stop Oil protesters, including the group’s co-founder, had their prison sentences reduced by the Court of Appeal this morning. Roger Hallam and 15 other activists had been jailed last year ...

The volume of UK onshore oil produced in December 2024 was up 5% , compared with the month before, almost topping the record for the year. December was the first month since July for UK onshore oil ...

2024 UK onshore oil production fell for the 11 th consecutive year to the lowest level for 37 years, according to official data published this week. Onshore dry gas production in the UK was also down: ...

Media reports earlier this month referred to drilling in “ancient mudstones” in the area around Gainsborough. But today, at what was billed as the formal launch of the discovery, the chair and chief ...

A campaigner who brought a legal challenge against oil production plans in Lincolnshire, was escorted out of an energy conference in the county this morning. Mathilda Dennis, a campaigner against ...

At least 10 lorry loads of equipment were delivered today to decommission two former shale gas wells at Cuadrilla’s mothballed fracking site near Blackpool. Decommissioning equipment delivered to ...

Anti-fracking campaigners were outside council headquarters in North Yorkshire again today – nearly nine years after councillors approved plans for hydraulic fracturing in Ryedale. Protest outside the ...

The UK must swap oil and gas for clean electricity to meet its next set of carbon reduction targets, the government’s climate advisor said today. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) said that by 2040 ...

2024 UK onshore oil production fell for the 11th consecutive year to the lowest level for 37 years, according to official data published this week.

Contamination from a West Sussex oil site could potentially end up in a drinking water reservoir, villagers told the Court of Appeal today.

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.