Updated: UK onshore oil and gas production in charts – April 2024

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 1, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

Production fell at Wressle, the UK’s newest onshore oil producer, but rose at Saltfleetby, the country’s largest onshore gas producer.

Daily oil and gas production rates both dropped in April 2024, compared with the month before.

Vented gas from UK onshore oil fields continued to rise.

Key figures

Daily oil production: 11,401 barrels of oil per day (bopd) (March 2024: 11,532 bopd)

Oil volume: 54,375 (March 2024: 56,836m3)

Oil weight: 44,960 tonnes (March 2024: 46,977 tonnes)

Daily gas production: 9.27 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscf/d) (March 2024: 10.59 mmscf/d

Gas volume: 7,874 thousand standard cubic meters (ksm3) (March 2024: 9,296 ksm3)

Gas weight: 6,462 tonnes (March 2024: 7,416 tonnes)

Onshore gas’s contribution to UK total production: 0.90% (March 2024: 0.91%)

Onshore oil’s contribution to UK total production: 1.86% (March 2024: 1.78%)

Volume of flared gas at UK onshore oilfields: 916ksm3 (March 2024: 1,086ksm3)

Volume of vented gas at UK onshore oilfields: 123ksm3 (March 2024: 114ksm3)

Number of onshore fields which recorded some oil production in April 2024: 31 (March 2024: 31)

Number of onshore sites which recorded some gas production in April 2024: 12 (March 2024: 14)

Number of onshore fields which recorded no oil production in April 2024: 12 (March 2024: 12)

Number of onshore sites which recorded no gas production in April 2024: 13 (March 2024: 11)

This article uses data compiled and published by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) on 1 July 2024 from reports by oil companies. This is published about three months in arrears. All the charts are based on the NSTA data.

Some data retrospectively changed in previous releases from NSTA. We have reported where this has happened.

Details

Daily production

Volume and weight

Contribution to total UK oil and gas production

Flaring and venting

More than half of UK onshore vented gas in April 2024 was from just three fields: Kimmeridge, Beckingham and Horndean.

Top producing fields

Oil top 20

Ranking risers: Welton, Scampton North, Horndean, Long Clawson, Beckingham, Cold Hanworth, Gainsborough, Corringham

Ranking fallers: Singleton, Bletchingley, Humbly Grove, Kimmeridge

The biggest fall in volume between March and April 2024 was at Wytch Farm. But this was what would be expected from the shorter month in April.

Other fields, however, saw bigger than expected falls: Wressle (down 17%); Singleton (down 11%); Humbly Grove (down 70%); Wareham (down 14%); Horndean (down 8%); Scampton North (down 6%).

Producing gas fields

Ranking risers: Stillingfleet, Wheldale, Prince of Wales, Newmarket, Gedling

Ranking fallers: Bilsthorpe, Maltby, Cadeby, Bevercotes, Markham Main

No production was reported from Albury, in Surrey, which ranked 5th in February 2024.

Non-producers

Oil

The data shows there was no production at 12 UK onshore oil fields in March 2024. This was the same as March 2024.

The non-producing fields were:

Angus Energy: Brockham, Lidsey
Britnrg Limited: Newton-on-Trent
Heyco (formerly Egdon Resources): Dukes Wood, Fiskerton Airfield, Kirklington, Waddock Cross
Star Enery (formerly IGas): Avington, Egmanton, Nettleham, Scampton, South Leverton

Gas

There was no production reported at 13 UK onshore producing gas fields in April 2024.

The non-producing fields were:

Cuadrilla: Elswick
Heyco: Kirkleatham
EP UK Investments: Humbly Grove Gas Storage
Ineos: Airth, Doe Green
Infinis Energy: coal mine vents at Askern, Florence, Kings Mill Hospital, Mansfield, Sherwood, Whitwell
Scottish Power UK plc: Hatfield Moor Gas Storage Injection
Star Energy: Albury

Operators

Oil

Gas

Update: Correction to headline and chart showing gas production at Saltfleetby.

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