Cuadrilla wants to use more chemicals to improve fracking at shale gas site
The shale gas company, Cuadrilla, is seeking permission to add new chemicals to its fracking operations in Lancashire.
Cuadrilla fully fracked only 5% of shale gas well and calls for urgent review of tremor rules
Cuadrilla has called for an urgent review of the rules on earth tremors caused by fracking after revealing that it fully fractured only two of 42 planned stages at its shale gas well near Blackpool.
Minister reveals details of new shale regulator
The government’s new shale regulator, announced last spring, has three members of staff, at a cost of £75,000, operates “virtually” and has no powers, the energy minister has said.
2018 in numbers
As 2018 concludes, DrillOrDrop has compiled some of the key statistics from the past 12 months for the UK onshore oil and gas industry.
Review of 2018
2018 was a year of firsts for fracking and the campaigns against it, with successes and setbacks on both sides of the argument.
Lancashire councillors call for halt to fracking for earth tremors inquiry
Councillors in Lancashire are calling on the government to suspend fracking at Cuadrilla’s shale gas site near Blackpool because of earth tremors.
Oil exploration should halt immediately in Surrey earthquake zone – geologists
A group of senior geologists has called for an immediate moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the area of Surrey affected by 12 earthquakes in the past four months.
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