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.
Europa Oil & Gas has announced it has been given more time to explore for gas in a licence in North Yorkshire
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.
Equipment to plug and abandon the mothballed well at a shale gas site in north Nottinghamshire was delivered this morning.
Cuadrilla’s fracked shale gas wells in Lancashire should be decommissioned in six months. But the company’s deadline depends on the availability of a rig.
The former fracking company, Cuadrilla, earned nothing for its Australian owner in the past 12 months but spent Aus$2.4m.
Two plots of land, acquired by Star Energy companies for gas drilling near Chester, are being sold.
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