The government failed to respond directly to a parliamentary petition about lower-volume fracking for onshore oil and gas, a ...

The council that will decide plans for hydraulic fracturing at Burniston, near Scarborough, has asked the government for more ...

UK onshore oil and gas production rose in August 2025 compared with the month before. But volumes did not reach the peaks ...

The council that will decide plans for hydraulic fracturing at Burniston, near Scarborough, has asked the government for more details about its proposed ban on fracking.

The oil and gas company, Star Energy, said this week it was under increasing strain in a challenging operating environment.

Plans to expand a suspended oil site in Dorset and restart production are unlikely to have “significant environmental impacts”, council planners ruled today.

The volume of UK onshore oil produced in December 2024 was up 5% , compared with the month before, almost topping the record for the year. December was the first month since July for UK onshore oil ...

Cuadrilla statement said the rig is expected to arrive towards the end of February. It also said: “Cuadrilla plans to move equipment onto the Preston New Road site in the second half of February to ...

The life of the Broadford Bridge site, near Billingshurst, had previously been extended four times, without any immediate prospect of oil production. But this morning members of the county council’s ...

This morning, a majority of three to two Supreme Court justices ruled that greenhouse gas emissions from the use of oil – known as downstream emissions – should be taken into account in planning ...

UK production of onshore oil was up in November 2024 but onshore gas was down, according to official figures just released. The oil increase was because of a 5,000m3 (12%) rise in volume from the UK’s ...