DrillOrDrop’s diary of events in Winter 2024 involving the UK onshore oil and gas industry and campaigns about it.

This post will be updated with new details as we get them. Please let us know about any events you think should be included.

1 January 2024

Publication of monthly onshore production data. Expected date for publication of North Sea Transition Authority data for October 2023. Look out for DrillOrDrop analysis.

10 January 2024

Reabold Resources requisitioned general meeting. Meeting called by shareholders who want to replace the Reabold Resources board.

22 January 2024

Second reading for Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill. House of Commons. Time to be confirmed.

25 January 2024

Consultation deadline on UKOG plans to delay restoration at Broadford Bridge in West Sussex. Details

31 January 2024

Planning application expected for two new Wressle wells. Date by which Egdon Resources said it aimed to submit a planning application to North Lincolnshire Council for two new production wells and an extension to the site. Details

1 February 2024

Publication of monthly onshore production data. Expected date for publication of North Sea Transition Authority data for November 2023. Look out for DrillOrDrop analysis.

Deadline for Springs Road, Misson. The start of the bird breeding season marks the deadline for site decommissioning at the Star Energy site in Nottinghamshire, next to Misson Carr site of special scientific interest.

6-7 February 2024

Appeal over Northern Ireland Gas Caverns. Lawyers for Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland and No Gas Caverns will be at the Court of Appeal in London in the latest stage of their legal battle against plans to construct seven large gas storage caverns underneath Larne Lough.

13 February 2024

Digital Security Training. Tipping Point training course. Details

19 February 2024

Diesel emissions challenge. Hearing at the High Court in Belfast in case brought by Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland against failure of Northern Ireland’s Department of Infrastructure to ensure that legally compliant diesel emissions tests were carried out at government-controlled MOT testing centres.

20 February 2024

High Court photo opportunity. Photo opportunity by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth and Good Law Project, to the government’s revised climate action plan. 8.45am outside the Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London W1

20-22 February 2024

High Court hearing on net zero strategy. The High Court will hear legal challenges brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth and Good Law Project, to the government’s revised climate action plan – the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan. 10am (to be confirmed), Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London W1

1 March 2024

Publication of monthly onshore production data. Expected date for publication of North Sea Transition Authority data for December 2023. Look out for DrillOrDrop analysis of annual production trends for 2023 and December 2023.

6 March 2024

Government public attitudes survey. Possible publication date for next survey of public attitudes on energy. Previous surveys have asked questions about fracking.

13 March 2024

What is Fossil Finance? Tipping Point training course. Lunchtime and evening sessions. Details

15 March 2024

Predicted determination date for Broadford Bridge planning application to delay restoration until 2026. Details

19 March 2024

West Sussex planning and rights of way committee. Date for committee deciding application to delay restoration of Broadford Bridge until 2026. 10.30am, County Hall, Chichester PO19 1RQ. Details.

31 March 2024

Expiry of planning permission for UKOG’s Broadford Bridge site in West Sussex. Details

Preston New Road plugging deadline. Date by when Cuadrilla has said it expects to have plugged and abandoned its two fracked shale gas wells at Preston New Road, subject to rig availability. Details

1 April 2024

Publication of monthly onshore production data. Expected date for publication of North Sea Transition Authority data for January 2024. Look out for DrillOrDrop analysis.

Unconfirmed events due winter 2024

• Ruling in Supreme Court case Finch v Surrey County Council. The case (UKSC 2022/0064) concerns the council’s failure to assess emissions from the use of oil produced at Horse Hill.
• Court hearing in challenge to government decision to approve new coal mine in West Cumbria. High Court, London. Date dependent on outcome of Finch v Surrey County Council.
• Legal challenge by Uplift and Greenpeace against new oil and gas licences in the North Sea.
• Legal challenge by Uplift and Greenpeace against approval of the development of the Rosebank oil field

Later dates

1 April 2024

Publication of monthly onshore production data. Expected date for publication of North Sea Transition Authority data for January 2024. Look out for DrillOrDrop analysis.

1 May 2024

Publication of monthly onshore production data. Expected date for publication of North Sea Transition Authority data for February 2024. Look out for DrillOrDrop analysis.

First half of 2024

West Newton-B well. Rathlin Energy says it plans to drill a horizontal well at this East Yorkshire site in the first half of the year.

30 June 2024

Deadline for Horse Hill farm-in. Date by which conditional binding Horse Hill farm-in term sheet has been extended with PennPetro.

31 December 2024

NSTA deadline for Preston New Road. Date by when Cuadrilla should plug and abandon its two horizontal shale gas wells at Preston New Road under an order from the North Sea Transition Authority

30 June 2025

Preston New Road planning deadline. Deadline for restoration of Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site. Details

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