Partners seeking to produce oil in the protected Lincolnshire Wolds have abandoned their challenge to the refusal of planning ...

An official report by UK Oil & Gas plc reveals why it gave up a licence to develop hydrocarbons in parts of Surrey and West ...

Work to plug and abandon wells at a dormant oil site in West Sussex is due to begin this month, DrillOrDrop has learned.

The government said today there was no evidence of risk from lower volume fracking. Energy minister, Michael Shanks, speaking ...

The former fracking company, Cuadrilla, has lost its bid for more time to restore its Lancashire shale gas site at Preston ...

Environmental campaigners and community groups have welcomed this morning’s decision by Lancashire County Council to refuse ...

Onshore gas’s contribution to UK total production: 0.93% August 2025 0.82%, July 2025 0.7%, June 2025 0.73%, May 2025 0.56% , ...

The oil and gas company, Rathlin Energy, has announced it has changed its independent auditor. The news was published this ...

Environmental campaigners and community groups have welcomed this morning’s decision by Lancashire County Council to refuse more time for restoration of a controversial fracking site.

Graham Stuart, the MP representing the area of East Yorkshire around Rathlin Energy’s West Newton oil site, is the new climate minister.

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak was criticised today for his government’s plans to expand North Sea oil and gas extraction, while promoting renewable energy at the COP27 climate talks.