Reporting on the unconventional oil and gas industry and its use of hydraulic fracturing
New monthly high for gas production at Saltfleetby, pushing up UK onshore volumes in July 2023 to the highest level for four years. Oil production was down at Wressle, the UK’s newest onshore field.
Rathlin Energy, the company which runs oil and gas sites in East Yorkshire, is seeking extra funding to pay for drilling and testing obligations.
Today’s approval to extract oil from the UK’s largest undeveloped field could be heading for the courts.
Oil-based drilling muds will be allowed on a new well in East Yorkshire, one of the companies involved said this morning.
Union Jack announced this morning it was buying a 3% stake in Beacon Energy plc, an onshore oil and gas company with assets in Germany.
Equipment to plug and abandon the mothballed well at a shale gas site in north Nottinghamshire was delivered this morning.
Star Energy and Union Jack Oil have reported falling profits in interim accounts published this week.
Cuadrilla’s fracked shale gas wells in Lancashire should be decommissioned in six months. But the company’s deadline depends on the availability of a rig.
Restoration of Nottinghamshire’s only shale gas site is due to begin later this month.
Angus Energy’s gas site at Saltfleetby reached record levels for a second consecutive month since production resumed last year. This helped push the onshore contribution to total UK gas production to its highest level for a year.
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