Who pays for clean-ups and decommissioning if an onshore operator goes bust? It’s a question that is concerning MPs and landowners. In this guest post, researcher and anti-fracking campaigner, Ben Dean, looks at the rules for decommissioning and argues for tougher controls.
Third Energy Holdings Limited has announced it has sold its troubled onshore gas business, which includes well sites in North Yorkshire.
UK onshore oil production fell to a seven-year low in 2018, according to official data.
Owners of fracking sites may be liable for the clean-up if project backers go out of business, MPs said in a report published today.
People living around the Horse Hill oil site near Gatwick Airport have protested about long-term drilling and production plans.
Time is running out for UK onshore oil and gas companies that were awarded exploration licences in the most recent government licensing round.
Keith Taylor MEP (second left) with opponents of oil drilling at the Horse Hill site near Horley. Photo: Office of Keith Taylor MEP Events in February 2019 and beyond about UK fracking, onshore oil and gas and campaigning.
Summary of recent activity and expected operations at key sites, including applications, decisions, company plans and licence changes.
In the week that IGas confirmed its Tinker Lane well had missed the Bowland shale, campaigner Ben Dean investigates the high failure rate of UK onshore oil and gas licences in the past two decades.
The Health and Safety Executive has reported that Tony Almond, who worked on onshore oil and gas policy, has died following a heart attack.
DRILL OR DROP? 