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.

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

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: ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Location of the Gainsborough Trough in the East Midlands. Source: North Sea Transition Authority. https://www.nstauthority.co.uk/media/1695/uk_onshore_2013.pdf The ...

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.

Lord Deben, the Conservative peer and former chair of the Climate Change Committee, has made a dramatic intervention at the High Court in support of a legal challenge that accuses the government of ...

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 ...