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Fracking for UK onshore oil and gas hit the headlines again during 2025. The year opened with the announcement by Europa Oil ...

2025 has seen a renewed debate about fracking, particularly with lower-volume operations proposed for Burniston, Wressle and West Newton. Among the key issues are how should fracking be defined and ...

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 ...

The decision on controversial plans to drill for gas and carry out lower volume fracking near the North York Moors National Park should be delayed, a council was urged today.

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

Partners seeking to produce oil in the protected Lincolnshire Wolds have abandoned their challenge to the refusal of planning permission, a formal statement announced this morning.

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: ...

The UK government is being urged to adopt tough controls in the coming weeks on methane releases from the oil and gas industry. Evidence of venting methane at Larkwhistle oil site, Stockbridge, April ...

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 ...

Plans to carry out a lower-volume hydraulic fracture at the West Newton-A oil and gas site in East Yorkshire look likely to get the go-ahead. West Newton-A wellsite, April 2025. Photo: DrillOrDrop The ...