A government minister is to decide whether there should be a detailed environmental study of plans to expand oil production ...

Key information that will determine the future of the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey has been delayed, officials have revealed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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. Michael Shanks MP. Photo: ...

An environmental campaigner is challenging the government over what he says are “misleading” and “inaccurate” claims about the controversial issue of fracking. The energy minister, Michael Shanks, ...

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 ...