Catch up with recent UK onshore oil and gas applications and decisions with DrillOrDrop’s update. Our list covers both planning and permitting, plus planning breaches from the past 12 months.

A court in Edinburgh has ruled that the former UK government’s go-ahead for the Rosebank oilfield off Shetland was unlawful.

Singleton produces about 0.8-1.1m standard cubic feet of gas a day, Star Energy has said. The gas is likely to be largely ...

Council planners are “in active dialogue” with an oil company over restoring the mothballed exploration site at Broadford Bridge in West Sussex.

Contamination from a West Sussex oil site could potentially end up in a drinking water reservoir, villagers told the Court of ...

The government’s long-awaited Energy White Paper, published today, warned the oil and gas sector it “must go considerably faster in reducing its own carbon footprint or risk losing its social licence ...

The fracking company, Cuadrilla, has been given just over four weeks to start plugging the shale gas wells at its mothballed ...

Residents from the West Sussex village of Balcombe are at the Court of Appeal in the morning (Tuesday 28 January 2025) in ...