Expansion plans published for Wressle oil site
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.
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.
The operator of Wytch Farm, the UK’s largest onshore oil field, has confirmed it plans to decommission one of its wells by 2027 and may decommission all by 2037.
The Wressle oil field in North Lincolnshire earned Europa Oil & Gas £5.3m in the past year, the company reported this week.
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.
Cuadrilla should be refused more time to restore its fracking site in Lancashire, the local Conservative MP has told the county council.
Opponents of fracking have described today’s withdrawal of an order to plug and abandon Cuadrilla’s Lancashire shale gas wells as ‘kicking the fracking can down the road ‘. More details
A tree planting scheme on the site of a former oil site in the South Downs National Park has failed.
The would-be fracking firm, Third Energy, has been acquired by a renewables company, which plans to use old gas wells to generate geothermal energy.