Oil and gas companies will “pile in” with fracking plans all over the country to exploit a legal loophole if a North ...

Residents in a North Yorkshire village where there are plans for lower-volume fracking have called on the energy minister to ...

An official online petition calling for a ban on all forms of fracking has passed an important milestone. It received more ...

Residents in a North Yorkshire village where there are plans for lower-volume fracking have called on the energy minister to apologise over claims he made about the process.

UK onshore daily oil production in June 2025 was the lowest for eight months. The monthly oil volume dropped 7% compared with the month before. The fall was more than twice what would have been ...

Supporters and opponents of a scheme to drill for oil in the Surrey Hills had their last chance today to persuade a planning inspector of their arguments.

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

Keep up to date with August 2023’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas.

Rathlin Energy will fail to meet its obligations to drill a production well at West Newton in East Yorkshire because it can’t find the money, it was revealed today. West Newton-B site in 2020. Photo: ...

The operator of the field, BritNRG, has estimated that the well, if approved, could extract 88 barrels of oil a day, or about 12 tonnes. The company has estimated the well could extract up to 118,000 ...

Campaigners and councillors have said they are shocked that a government-appointed inspector has overturned the refusal of planning permission for long-term oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds ...