DrillOrDrop’s diary of events in spring 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 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.

2 April 2024

Campaigners celebrate refusal of planning permission for Broadford Bridge site. Details

12 April 2024

Closing date for consultation on licensing policy in Northern Ireland. Link to consultation

Extension date for Waddock Cross plans. Extended target date for consideration of planning application to retain Waddock Cross site until 2033. Details

22 April 2024

Get together of fracking opponents, former Kirby Misperton shale gas site, North Yorkshire.

24 April 2024

Star Energy results. The company (formerly IGas) announces its results for the year to December 2023.

25 April 2024

Closing date of public consultation on plans by Egdon Resources to expand Wressle oil site and drill two new wells. Details

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.

8 May 2024

Meeting of North Lincolnshire Council planning committee. Possible date for consideration of Egdon Resources’ expansion plans for Wressle oil site. NOT ON AGENDA.

15 May 2024

Public evidence session. House of Lords environment and climate change methane inquiry. 10am, room 3, Palace of Westminster and on ParliamentTV. Details

20 May 2024

Union Jack Oil results published

22 May 2024

Public evidence session. House of Lords environment and climate change methane inquiry. 10am, room 3, Palace of Westminster and on ParliamentTV. Details

29 May 2024

UK Oil & Gas plc AGM. 11am, 8th floor, The Broadgate Tower, 20 Primrose Street, London EC2A 2EW. Details

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

18-19 June 2024

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

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.

Unconfirmed events due spring 2024 onwards

• 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.
• Court hearing in challenge to planning permission for Biscathorpe oil production. Date dependent on outcome of Finch V Surrey County Coumcil.
• 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
• Ruling on application for appeal hearing against Angus Energy well test of Balcombe well, West Sussex
• Expected arrival of rig early in Q2 to reinstate production from the Brockham 2Y well. 

Later dates

7 June 2024

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

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

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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