Keep up to date with December 2023’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas.

Reabold Resources has acquired a further 20.4% of shares in Rathlin Energy, the operator of two exploration sites in East ...

Work to decommission mothballed shale gas wells at the Preston New Road fracking site in Lancashire is now expected to take until the end of March 2025, Cuadrilla has revealed.

Work to decommission mothballed shale gas wells at the Preston New Road fracking site in Lancashire is now expected to take ...

Equipment is to be removed from the unlawful oil site at Horse Hill, stripped of its planning permission by the Supreme Court, Surrey County Council (SCC) said today (18 2024). But the ...

Shale drilling and fracturing techniques could drive the development of geothermal power, the world’s leading energy ...

Planners at North Lincolnshire Council granted planning permission for more drilling and small-scale fracking in an expansion of the Wressle oil site near Scunthorpe. The proposals include increasing ...

Campaigners are urging a council to insist on the speedy restoration of a suspended oil site in West Sussex where decommissioning deadlines have been missed. The Broadford Bridge site, near ...

The UK’s most controversial shale gas site has failed to meet the deadline to plug two fracked wells – putting it in breach of planning consent. Cuadrilla’s mothballed Preston New Road shale gas site ...

Sarah Finch, the campaigner who won a landmark victory on carbon emissions at the Supreme Court earlier this year, has been named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most innovative leaders driving ...

Onshore oil’s contribution to UK total production: 2.08% (August 2024 2.70%, July 2024 2.16%) Onshore gas’s contribution to UK total production: 0.92% (August 2024 0.96%, July 2024 0.74%) Volume of ...