Latest UK onshore oil production data: March 2021
Key figures Barrels per day (bopd): 14,194(February 2021 14,491 bopd, January 2021 14,794 bopd)
Key figures Barrels per day (bopd): 14,194(February 2021 14,491 bopd, January 2021 14,794 bopd)
Annual UK onshore oil production has fallen to its lowest level since 2011.
An operation to improve the flow of oil at the Horse Hill site in Surrey failed to return production volumes quickly to initial peaks.
A workover rig has been delivered to Egdon Resources’ Wressle oil site in North Lincolnshire to prepare the well for production.
More than 600 academics, politicians and campaigners signed a letter calling on the government to replace the current moratorium on fracking with an outright ban.
Some fracking for oil and gas could still go ahead, despite the government’s moratorium, a ministerial statement has indicated.
People are invited to comment on an application by IGas to dispose of radioactive waste at its Singleton oil site in West Sussex.
The exploration site at West Newton, north of Hull, has more oil than previously estimated, investors in the site said today.
As the dust settles on the government’s fracking U-turn, former ministerial adviser professor Peter Styles explains why definitions matter and how one part of England could be excluded from the moratorium.
Cuadrilla fracked just seven times at its Preston New Road site near Blackpool last month before inducing a record-breaking earth tremor.