The volume of UK onshore gas fell nearly 4.5% in January 2025, compared with the month before. This was the lowest monthly volume since September 2024 and mainly because a fall in production at ...

The industry regulator gave Cuadrilla more time to plug and abandon its shale gas wells at Preston New Road in Lancashire, DrillOrDrop has discovered. Decommissioning work at Cuadrilla’s Preston New ...

The onshore oil company at the centre of a landmark Supreme Court judgement has announced trading would be suspended because its annual accounts would not be published on time. UKOG share price falls, ...

October 2024 saw the lowest daily production rate for UK onshore oil since the oil leak at Wytch Farm 18 months earlier.

A Surrey community group is refusing to give up its legal challenge over government backing for gas drilling near the village of Dunsfold.

The UK’s first formal assessment of carbon emissions from burning onshore oil has been criticised as “flawed”, “misleading” and “unlawful”. River Bain near Egdon’s proposed oil production site at ...

Planners are supporting proposals to tanker wastewater from oil wells in southern England to inject into site in a Surrey village to boost production. Brockham oil site, 2022. Photo: used with the ...

The operators of a mothballed well site in an East Yorkshire village have been accused of apparently “misusing the planning system for their own benefit”. Operations at West Newton B in 2 July 2021.

There is still no date for final clearance of the oil site at the centre of a Supreme Court landmark judgement issued nine months ago. Sarah Finch wins landmark legal judgement at the Supreme Court, ...

Waste fluid from oil wells across southern England can be tankered to a village in the Surrey green belt, where it will be pumped underground, councillors decided this morning. Brockham oil site.

A gas company that criticised campaigners for using the word ‘fracking’ for a well operation in North Yorkshire used the same term for the same process in correspondence with officials. Campaigners ...

Around 250 people took part in a march on Saturday (22 March 2025) against plans to explore for gas in the village of Burniston, near the North York Moors National Park. March against gas exploration ...