Northern Ireland to ban fracking and onshore oil and gas operations
All onshore petroleum operations, including fracking, are to be banned in Northern Ireland and no new licences will be granted from now on, it was announced today.
All onshore petroleum operations, including fracking, are to be banned in Northern Ireland and no new licences will be granted from now on, it was announced today.
Plans to extend an oil site and build a new pipeline should be refused unless more information is provided because it could affect a prehistoric cemetery, historians have warned.
DrillOrDrop’s diary of events in spring 2024 involving the UK onshore oil and gas industry and campaigns about it.
The UK’s second largest onshore oil production site has published proposals to increase its footprint by about a third and drill two new wells.
A suspended oil site in West Sussex, where no work has been carried out for nearly six years, could supply geothermal heat for farming, including tea production, according to new plans.
The operator of the Wressle oilfield in North Lincolnshire said today it wanted to extend the site and add two new production wells that would extract hydrocarbons for 10-15 years.
Two directors of an oil firm have retired after “consultation with shareholders” and the entire board of a second company faces a call for its replacement.
A controversial former fracking pad that divided a North Yorkshire community has become a test site for geothermal energy production.
Operators of a Dorset oil site which has produced nothing since 2014 want to extend its life for another 10 years.
DrillOrDrop’s diary of events in spring 2023 involving the UK onshore oil and gas industry and campaigns about it.