The company behind the claims, the Texas-based Heyco Energy Group, said results of an assessment of the field around Gainsborough were “outstanding”. Heyco said the gasfield, known as the Gainsborough ...

Key equipment was installed today to decommission Cuadrilla’s fracked shale gas wells and work is expected to start imminently. The coiled tubing unit has been delivered to the Preston New Road site ...

The operator of unlawful oil production at Horse Hill in Surrey has not given a date when equipment will be removed from the site. The company has also not acknowledged a formal request for more ...

Anti-fracking campaigners were outside council headquarters in North Yorkshire again today – nearly nine years after councillors approved plans for hydraulic fracturing in Ryedale. Protest outside the ...

Media reports earlier this month referred to drilling in “ancient mudstones” in the area around Gainsborough. But today, at what was billed as the formal launch of the discovery, the chair and chief ...

A campaigner who brought a legal challenge against oil production plans in Lincolnshire, was escorted out of an energy conference in the county this morning. Mathilda Dennis, a campaigner against ...

The UK must swap oil and gas for clean electricity to meet its next set of carbon reduction targets, the government’s climate advisor said today. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) said that by 2040 ...