The Environment Agency (EA) has admitted mistakes in its official assessment of plans for gas drilling and fracking at Burniston in North Yorkshire, following widespread criticism.

Reabold Resources has announced its takeover offer for Union Jack Oil has lapsed.

Reabold Resources has detailed its work programme for the West Newton oil and gas field in East Yorkshire.

The new board of Union Jack Oil has repeated its recommendation to shareholders to reject the takeover bid by Reabold Resources.

A formal complaint has been made against the Environment Agency (EA) over the way it has handled plans for gas drilling and lower-volume fracking at Burniston in North Yorkshire.

An environmental campaigner has applied to the High Court for an interim injunction to halt lower-volume fracking at the West Newton-A site in East Yorkshire.

Council officers have allowed the access track to remain to the former Broadford Bridge oil exploration site in West Sussex.

Reabold Resources has hit back at doubts over plans to frack at West Newton in East Yorkshire made by the partner it is seeking to acquire.

Star Energy, the oil and gas operator with multiple UK onshore sites, is planning to expand its portfolio, according to company accounts.

Gas drilling and lower-volume fracking near the North York Moors National Park should not go-ahead because of flaws in the official environmental assessment, a consultation has revealed.

Gas drilling and lower-volume fracking near the North York Moors National Park should not go-ahead because of flaws in the official environmental assessment, a consultation has revealed.

The Burnham government has confirmed it will not ban lower-volume fracking.

The fracking company Cuadrilla has secured the very time extension to restore its Lancashire shale gas site that councillors refused nine months ago.

Production at the UK’s newest onshore oil site has dropped 15%, accounts from one of the partners have revealed.

New directors of Union Jack Oil have unanimously rejected the takeover offer by Reabold Resources.

Companies behind plans in East Yorkshire for a £2.5m lower-volume frack, well test and data centre study have given notice of preparation work.

Campaigners gathered outside the Horndean B oil site in Hampshire yesterday (6 September 2026) to launch a fundraiser for a legal challenge over methane pollution from onshore oil and gas sites in …

No decision is expected this month (September 2026) on controversial plans for expansion and long-term production at the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey, the county council has confirmed.

New directors of Union Jack Oil will give their views next week on the proposed takeover by Reabold Resources, according to a statement to investors.

UK Oil & Gas, the company behind controversial expansion plans at the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey, has changed its name.

A statement by Cuadrilla about the controversial Balcombe oil site in West Sussex apparently conflicts with information from officials and the company’s own partner.

Rathlin Energy, the company planning lower-volume fracking in East Yorkshire, has appointed a new board member from its majority owner.

All three Union Jack Oil directors, David Bramhill, Joseph O’Farrell and Zac Phillips, have been removed immediately from the board, the company announced today (24 August 2026).

DrillOrDrop will be posting updates here as a record of the clean-up of Cuadrilla’s fracking site at Preston New Road in Lancashire.

The government has unveiled its revised planning blueprint for England, with key changes to shape onshore oil and gas decisions.

Fencing at Cuadrilla’s controversial former fracking site in Lancashire is being dismantled and removed.

Residents in a Yorkshire Wolds village have asked the prime minister for help in their opposition to local gas drilling plans.

Restoration of the Broadford Bridge oil site in West Sussex is due to begin this summer, officials have confirmed.

The assessment of the climate impact of expansion at the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey contains “multiple errors and misleading and irrelevant information”, campaigners said today.

A public consultation opened today on the Environment Agency’s (EA) draft decision to grant consent for gas drilling and lower-volume fracking at Burniston in North Yorkshire.

Gas drilling in a small village in the Yorkshire Wolds would cause “unacceptable harm”, a leading campaign organisation has said.

Union Jack, which has interests at Wressle and West Newton, has recommended shareholders vote against a proposal to remove the board.

People have three weeks to comment on the controversial Rosebank development, Britan’s biggest undeveloped oil and gas field.

Star Energy has given up environmental consent to produce hydrogen at the Albury gas site in Surrey.

Campaigners have criticised another oil operator for a “flawed assessment” of the climate impact of drilling and production plans.

Friends of the Earth map of areas where a form of fracking could be carried out. Link to interactive version of map On the first full day of the Burnham government, campaigners have warned that peo…

Miatta Fahnbulleh has been appointed secretary of state for energy security and net zero in the new Andy Burnham government. She replaces Ed Miliband, who has become foreign secretary.

A company’s assessment of the climate impact of oil production at Horse Hill in Surrey is flawed and any permission based on it would be unlawful, campaigners said today.

The company behind gas plans in North Yorkshire announced losses of more than £4 million in its annual accounts.

Shareholders in energy B have approved the company’s plans to acquire the majority stake in the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey.

Shareholders opposed to the takeover of Union Jack Oil are seeking a general meeting to remove three directors from the board.

An American-owned hydrocarbon company is backing plans for gas production in the North York Moors National Park, it was revealed today.

The countdown to restoration of the Preston New Road former fracking site near Blackpool is underway.

Two Cuadrilla subsidiaries have formally gone out of business.

Reabold Resources announced this afternoon it had reached agreement on the takeover of Union Jack Oil.

A four-year-old company is to outline plans to the public next week on extracting billions of cubic feet of gas in a remote and sensitive part of the North York Moors.

A partner in the mothballed Waddock Cross oil site in Dorset gave details to shareholders this week of a proposed new well. Waddock Cross well site in Dorset. Photo: Egdon Resources Union Oil &…

Angus Energy announced today it had signed conditional restructuring agreements with its creditors.

Households are facing higher energy bills because the UK is not electrifying fast enough, government advisers warned today.

The site at the centre of a landmark legal challenge is seeking to produce more than 600,000 tonnes of oil over the next 20 years, releasing about two million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.