Another call for earlier ban on flaring in oil and gas fields
Routine flaring on oil and gas fields should be banned by 2025, a review of the government’s net zero strategy has concluded.
Routine flaring on oil and gas fields should be banned by 2025, a review of the government’s net zero strategy has concluded.
A cross-party committee of MPs has called for flaring on UK oil and gas fields to be banned in the next two years.
Just three onshore wells were drilled in 2022, despite record oil and gas prices.
Three leading oil and gas operators have been fined a total of £265,000 over breaching UK flaring and production agreements.
DrillOrDrop’s review of the latest UK onshore oil data for September 2022: First production figures published for Egdon’s Wressle oil site near Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire.
The climate-damaging gas methane is still being released at English onshore oil sites, a year after researchers revealed the problem.
Anti-fracking groups in Lancashire are calling on the government and regulators to order the permanent plugging and abandonment of wells at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site.
Carbon emissions from UK oil and gas production fell by more than a fifth from 2018-21, the industry regulator said in a report published today. But the sector is not on course to meet its emissions reduction target in 2030 and carbon pollution per gallon of oil actually […]
DrillOrDrop’s review of the latest UK onshore oil data for June 2022: daily onshore oil production was still at historically low levels, despite increasing oil prices.
The shale gas company, Cuadrilla, has taken the first step to extending the life of its suspended fracking site near Blackpool.