Flaring in the North Sea has halved in the past four years, the industry regulator announced today. But analysis by DrillOrDrop shows that flaring at onshore fields reached record levels in 2022.
Plans by Cuadrilla for a two-year delay in restoring its controversial fracking site near Blackpool were published today.
The industry regulator has given UK Oil & Gas plc more time to drill a gas well near the village of Dunsfold in Surrey, the company has announced.
DrillOrDrop’s diary of events in spring 2023 involving the UK onshore oil and gas industry and campaigns about it.
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.
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