Union Jack raises £5m for new wells at West Newton and Biscathorpe
Union Jack Oil plc has raised £5m to press ahead with drilling plans at West Newton in East Yorkshire, the company announced this morning.
IGas wins more time for exploration
IGas has been granted extra time for exploration work in six oil and gas licences awarded three years ago.
Angus seals deal for Saltfleetby gasfield
Angus Energy announced this morning it had completed a farm-in agreement for the Saltfleetby gasfield in East Lincolnshire.
IGas Springs Road shale gas well reaches total depth – company accounts reveal £21m loss
IGas has confirmed its first shale gas well at Springs Road in north Nottinghamshire has reached its total depth of 3,500 metres and encountered all three targets.
Egdon to seal Biscathorpe oil well after it fails to find target formation
Egdon Resources’ new well at Biscathorpe, near Louth in Lincolnshire, has failed to encounter the oil formation it was targeting, the company said this afternoon.
Protest ban for community liaison group on Lincs oil exploration well
An oil company has banned members of a community information group from taking part in protests about its exploration site.
First arrests outside Egdon’s Biscathorpe drill site
A 74-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman become the first people to be arrested outside the Egdon Resources oil exploration site at Biscathorpe in Lincolnshire.
August 2018 drilling headlines
August 2018 sees Cuadrilla prepare to frack its site at Preston New Road. There are meetings to decide oil site proposals in Surrey and Lincolnshire. The latest government survey results on attitudes to shale gas will be published and the outcome of a legal challenge to UKOG’s protest injunction […]
Celtique pulls out of more East Mids licences
Celtique Energie’s withdrawal from oil and gas licences has continued with the announcement today that it has sold more interests in the East Midlands.
What’s happening this week? 14-20 May 2018
In this week’s listings Week of hearings by the Permanent People’s Tribunal on fracking; More witnesses give evidence to parliamentary inquiry on fracking planning guidance; Decision meeting on applications for oil exploration at N Kelsey and Biscathorpe; Seventh week of United Resistance campaign against fracking in Lancashire; Drop-in meeting on […]
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