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 Environment Agency has instructed Rathlin Energy to stop the smell coming from its exploratory oil and gas well at West Newton in the Yorkshire Wolds after complaints from residents that it was ...

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.

24th June 2014 County councillors who went on an information visit to an oil field weren’t told about two pollution incidents which took four years to fix, according to details released today (24/6/14 ...

The oil and gas company, Rathlin Energy, has announced it has changed its independent auditor. Rathlin Energy’s West Newton-B well site in East Yorkshire, 2025. Photo: West Newton We Said No The news ...

The UK needs to kick its dependence on fossil fuels by dropping plans for new oil and gas licences and the new coal mine in Cumbria, Friends of the Earth said this morning.

Daily onshore oil and gas production rates rose slightly in September 2025, compared with the month before. The contribution of onshore oil and gas to total UK production, though still very small, ...