Location of the Gainsborough Trough in the East Midlands. Source: North Sea Transition Authority. https://www.nstauthority.co.uk/media/1695/uk_onshore_2013.pdf The ...

Decommissioning of Cuadrilla’s mothballed fracking wells is due to get underway within days after a crane was delivered to the site near Blackpool. Crane at Preston New Road former fracking site, 20 ...

Plans to explore for gas near a village between Scarborough and Bridlington will not need a detailed environmental assessment, council officials have decided. Proposed site layout for Foxholes gas ...

The decision over plans to extract oil in the Lincolnshire Wolds looks likely to be delayed. Rare chalk stream near the Biscathorpe oil site where Egdon Resources wants to carry out long-term ...

Key equipment was installed today to decommission Cuadrilla’s fracked shale gas wells and work is expected to start imminently.

All the new onshore oil and gas wells in the UK in 2024 were drilled on a single small island in Poole Harbour, according to official data analysed by DrillOrDrop.

The Surrey wellsite that unlawfully extracted oil after the Supreme Court quashed its planning permission has not been issued with a formal stop notice, the county council confirmed today.

Contamination from a West Sussex oil site could potentially end up in a drinking water reservoir, villagers told the Court of Appeal today.

Council planners are “in active dialogue” with an oil company over restoring the mothballed exploration site at Broadford Bridge in West Sussex.

Climate campaigners climbed onto to the roof of a council headquarters today in their bid to end pension fund investment in fossil fuels.

There is “material uncertainty” over the finances of companies in the Cuadrilla oil and gas group, annual accounts have revealed. Gate to Cuadrilla Bowland’s now mothballed Preston New Road site, ...

The Court of Sessions ruled this morning that the decision did not take into account the greenhouse gas emissions from the use of the oil. The decision on the smaller Jackdaw gasfield was also ruled ...