Cuadrilla cuts value of oil and gas assets
The only company to frack horizontal shale gas wells onshore in the UK has cut the value of its exploration assets.
The only company to frack horizontal shale gas wells onshore in the UK has cut the value of its exploration assets.
DrillOrDrop’s diary of events in spring 2024 involving the UK onshore oil and gas industry and campaigns about it.
A local campaign group is celebrating the formal end to shale gas operations near an important nature reserve in the Nottinghamshire village of Misson.
Cuadrilla’s Australian owner spent more than £0.75m in six months in the UK in 2023, more than double the amount in the previous year. But the company has no plans for future “substantive expenditure” on UK shale gas.
A shale gas well in Nottinghamshire that has been mothballed for more than four years has been decommissioned, officials have confirmed.
Cuadrilla’s plan to decommission its fracked wells in Lancashire is already behind schedule.
DrillOrDrop’s checklist of what to look out for in 2024 on UK onshore oil and gas. You can also catch up with the headlines from 2023 in our review of the year.
A landmark legal challenge to UK onshore oil and gas production was heard by the country’s highest court in 2023.
Work to plug and abandon one of England’s few shale gas wells has been delayed – but it is due to be completed “within the next week”, DrillOrDrop has learned.
The UK’s shortest serving prime minister has called for a revival of fracking for shale gas.