January 2025 date for Balcombe well test challenge
The latest legal challenge against testing an exploratory oil well at Balcombe in West Sussex will be heard in January 2025.
Election 24: Ex-energy secretary steps down
The pro-fracking former energy secretary, Andrea Leadsom, has said she will not fight the general election.
Friends of the Earth challenges anti-protest injunctions at European Court of Human Rights
The use of anti-protest injunctions in the UK is being challenged by Friends of the Earth at the European Court of Human Rights.
Cuadrilla cuts value of oil and gas assets
The only company to frack horizontal shale gas wells onshore in the UK has cut the value of its exploration assets.
Campaigners welcome restoration of Notts shale gas site
A local campaign group is celebrating the formal end to shale gas operations near an important nature reserve in the Nottinghamshire village of Misson.
Spending doubles at Cuadrilla but no plans for future “substantive expenditure”
Cuadrilla’s Australian owner spent more than £0.75m in six months in the UK in 2023, more than double the amount in the previous year. But the company has no plans for future “substantive expenditure” on UK shale gas.
Misson shale gas well decommissioned
A shale gas well in Nottinghamshire that has been mothballed for more than four years has been decommissioned, officials have confirmed.
Delays to timetable for plugging Cuadrilla’s fracked wells
Cuadrilla’s plan to decommission its fracked wells in Lancashire is already behind schedule.
What to watch in 2024?
DrillOrDrop’s checklist of what to look out for in 2024 on UK onshore oil and gas. You can also catch up with the headlines from 2023 in our review of the year.
UK onshore oil and gas production in charts – September 2023
UK onshore oil and gas production fell for the second consecutive month in September 2023, with more drops in extraction from leading fields at Wytch Farm, Wressle and Saltfleetby.
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