Eight new wells for East Yorkshire’s West Newton gasfield – plan unveiled
The first of eight new horizontal wells to exploit the West Newton gasfield in East Yorkshire could be drilled within months, it was revealed today.
The first of eight new horizontal wells to exploit the West Newton gasfield in East Yorkshire could be drilled within months, it was revealed today.
Annual UK onshore oil production has fallen again, continuing a downward trend in 2021 that began in the 1990s.
Two years after the UK’s strongest fracking-induced earthquake, there’s no agreement on how to manage shale gas risks, an exploration company said today.
IGas saw revenue drop by nearly half last year following production cuts and a falling oil price during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In this guest post, researcher and anti-fracking campaigner Ben Dean argues there should be a change to the law which currently could allow the Chinese to influence shale gas exploration in England.
The former head of BP and the fracking firm Cuadrilla has warned that oil prices will remain low for “some considerable time”.
IGas reported today it was working on contingency plans in case its operations were affected by the coronavirus.
The oil company, UKOG, has listed 116 extra people who it says should be covered by a High Court injunction granted against protests at its drilling sites.
The gas production company, Third Energy, formerly owned by Barclays, has been released from a loan of more than £80m, according to its accounts.
Shareholders in most UK onshore oil and gas companies could be forgiven for looking forward to the end of 2019.