Reporting of the regulation of the shale oil and gas and hydraulic fracturing industry, including planning permissions and permits
The life of a mothballed exploration site should be extended for another two years to allow an oil company to review data from two other wells in southern England, council planners have recommended.
Campaigners have called for a “blanket ban” on new oil and gas developments in new planning rules proposed for Hampshire.
UK Oil & Gas has revived a bid to reorganise its share capital, needed to raise money for future projects, including a gas site in Surrey.
A shale gas well in Nottinghamshire that has been mothballed for more than four years has been decommissioned, officials have confirmed.
The Wressle oil site in North Lincolnshire has been given consent for a larger gas engine to generate electricity.
Cuadrilla’s plan to decommission its fracked wells in Lancashire is already behind schedule.
Work to plug and abandon one of England’s few shale gas wells has been delayed – but it is due to be completed “within the next week”, DrillOrDrop has learned.
A planning inspector has allowed long-term oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds, even though he admitted it would harm the landscape and beauty of the area.
Restoration of Nottinghamshire’s only shale gas site is due to begin later this month.
Plans to expand a suspended oil site in Dorset and restart production are unlikely to have “significant environmental impacts”, council planners ruled today.
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