DrillOrDrop’s diary of events in summer 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 June 2024

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

5-6 June 2024

Legal challenge to Biscathorpe planning permission. Dates scheduled for High Court hearing in statutory review of planning inspector’s approval of permission for production and extra drilling at Biscathorpe in Lincolnshire. DrillOrDrop report

7 June 2024

Update due from Cuadrilla on progress report to Lancashire County Council on decommissioning and restoration of Preston New Road. Details

18-19 June 2024

High Court challenge to government’s National Adaptation Programme. Details

20 June 2024

Supreme Court judgement in legal challenge brought by Sarah Finch against Surrey County Council over carbon emissions from use of oil at Horse Hill. Details

27 June 2024

Union Jack Oil AGM

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.

4 July 2024

Election day

10 July 2024

North Lincolnshire Council planning committee. Possible date for consideration of Egdon’s expansion plans at the Wressle oil site. To be confirmed.

16-18 July 2024

High Court challenge on Cumbrian coal mine. Case brought by South Lakes Action on Climate Change and Friends of the Earth against government approval of the mine. Details

31 July 2024

North Lincolnshire Council planning committee. Possible date for consideration of Egdon’s expansion plans at the Wressle oil site. To be confirmed.

21 August 2024

General meeting of UK Oil & Gas plc. Virtual meeting at 11am. Details

Unconfirmed events

• 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

19 September 2024

Deadline for appeal. Approximate date by which UK Oil & Gas plc must appeal against refusal of time extension for Broadford Bridge, West Sussex. Details

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

28-29 January 2025

Court of Appeal hearing on Balcombe oil test challenge. Details

30 June 2025

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

NSTA drilling deadline. Drilling deadline for Loxley-1 well, near Dunsfold, in Surrey. Details

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