New monthly high for gas production at Saltfleetby, pushing up UK onshore volumes in July 2023 to the highest level for four years. Oil production was down at Wressle, the UK’s newest onshore field.
Today’s approval to extract oil from the UK’s largest undeveloped field could be heading for the courts.
The UK’s only fracked horizontal shale gas wells must be decommissioned, the industry regulator said today.
The UK’s newest oilfield has begun producing water, the operator has confirmed.
Opponents of new drilling for oil and gas have criticised the prime minister’s promise to grant “hundreds” of new licences.
DrillOrDrop’s review of the latest UK onshore production data, for April 2023, reveals a big drop in monthly production from the largest field at Wytch Farm. This cut the UK’s total monthly onshore oil volumes by more than half.
Oil production at the IGas field at Horndean in Hampshire is expected to rise this year following the introduction of new pumps, one of the partners has said.
The oil and gas industry regulator has began another investigation into the suspected failure of a company to comply with licence obligations.
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.
A cross-party committee of MPs has called for flaring on UK oil and gas fields to be banned in the next two years.
