Highlights Seismograph picks up 0.4 magnitude event Preston New Road site still in testing phase Tremor strength close to current regulatory threshold for pause London — Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known Continue Reading
Private hire taxi business Adison Lee and British self-driving software specialist Oxbotica said on Monday that they struck a strategic alliance aiming to deploy and operate self-driving services in London Continue Reading
A cut in the UK’s Carbon Price Support tax risks a resurgence in coal-fired generation and higher CO2 emissions into the 2020s, Aurora Energy Research said Monday. Receive daily email Continue Reading
The government should ban sales of virtually all new petrol and diesel cars by 2032, a group of MPs say in a withering report that labels the current 2040 target Continue Reading
Major UK companies, including banks and retailers, are pledging to invest hundreds of millions of British pounds to cut their carbon footprint and to support new energies, the UK government Continue Reading
A British seismologist has suggested the recent series of earthquakes in Surrey had no causal link to oil drilling activities being carried out in the region. Surrey Live quoted Dr. Continue Reading
Protesters gathered on Monday morning outside a drilling site in northwest England, where fracking is returning for the first time in seven years, after a last-minute request for an injunction Continue Reading
Fracking in the UK is resuming on Saturday for the first time since 2011—when it was linked to earthquakes—after a court dismissed on Friday a last-minute request for an injunction. Continue Reading
In a farmer’s field in northwestern England, a decade-old energy company hopes to overcome its decidedly rocky history of shale drilling in the United Kingdom. Seven years after earthquakes followed its Continue Reading
The three defendants were joined by supporters outside court Three men have been jailed for causing a public nuisance during protests at a Lancashire fracking site. The men are believed Continue Reading
An open letter signed by over 200 academics says the conviction of three anti-fracking protesters ‘sets a dangerous precedent’ More than 200 academics have signed a letter calling for a Continue Reading
A dry summer has shrunk the British potato crop and raised a daunting prospect for Britons: a shortage of chips. Fish and chip shops say they will have to reduce Continue Reading
Shale gas developer Cuadrilla Resources will start fracking for gas at its Preston New Road site in northwest England next week, the company said on Friday. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, Continue Reading
UK shale gas pioneer Cuadrilla Resources is to begin hydraulic fracturing at the first of its two horizontal shale gas wells at its Preston New Road site in Northwest England Continue Reading
French oil and energy group Total said on Monday it had made a major gas discovery on the Glendronach prospect, located off the coast of the Shetland islands in the Continue Reading
Despite reduced costs and efficiency improvements, the UK oil and gas industry could lose its significance as a key contributor to the UK economy and energy supply, due to record Continue Reading
The UK government is to support the roll-out of fast-charging networks for electric vehicles, Business Secretary Greg Clark said Tuesday on BBC Radio 4’s Today Program. Receive daily email alerts, Continue Reading
The City of London is considering banning non-electric vehicles from a special “low-emission” street, in a pilot programme that underscores the severity of the air pollution crisis plaguing the financial Continue Reading
Four senior geologists are calling for a moratorium on oil and gas drilling in Surrey in the UK, southeast of London, after 12 earthquakes were registered in the area over Continue Reading
Despite the many announcements for new electric vehicle (EV) models coming to the market and government initiatives to support EV adoption, UK motorists remain reluctant—if not stubborn—to make the switch Continue Reading
Still facing protests over shale gas work, British energy company Cuadrilla Resources said its efforts were pumping millions of dollars into the local economy. The company, a pioneer in British Continue Reading
Shale gas developer Cuadrilla on Tuesday became the first operator in Britain to receive final consent from the government to frack an onshore horizontal exploration well, paving the way for Continue Reading
British authorities said Monday they were working to examine the potential vulnerability to groundwater supplies from onshore oil and gas activity. The British Geological Survey and the nation’s Environment Agency Continue Reading
UK C&C It was expected by many, me included but more importantly UKOGA and a couple of the bigger oil and gas consultancies, that UK offshore oil production would increase Continue Reading
A British task force said Thursday that carbon capture and storage is ready for deployment provided investments materialize by the early 2020s. “After six months of intense discussions between a Continue Reading
Opening new acreage to drillers on the British continental shelf sets the stage for a revival for the offshore sector, a government official said Tuesday. The British Oil & Gas Continue Reading
The UK should back renewables and support only one more nuclear plant after Hinkley Point C before 2025, because renewable energy is the safest bet for a low-cost energy system Continue Reading
Diminishing the national significance of British shale natural gas work creates unnecessary delays for developing the fledgling industry, a trade group said. A select committee in the British Parliament published Continue Reading
Oil companies and utilities won’t dispute that electric vehicles are on the cusp of becoming mass market. Their battle will be more over which business will dominate the booming charging Continue Reading
UK sales of new diesel cars fell by 30 percent in the first six months of this year, as buyers shunned the once-dominant fuel in favour of higher-CO2 petrol. Diesel Continue Reading
BP’s acquisition of Britain’s largest electric vehicle charging company gives the supermajor an edge in a changing retail segment, an analytics company said. The British energy company announced Thursday it Continue Reading
30% of the natural gas fueling UK homes and businesses could be replaced by hydrogen without requiring any changes to the nation’s boilers and ovens, a study by Swansea University Continue Reading
UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove published a new Clean Air Strategy to cut air pollution backed up through new primary legislation. The UK said it will go further and faster Continue Reading
British oil giant BP Plc said it plans to cut 3 percent of jobs in exploration and production, as part of a restructuring of its global upstream business to make Continue Reading
BP has secured 2 million mt/year of LNG from the Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility in Louisiana, under a 20-year sales and purchase agreement with Venture Global LNG, Continue Reading
After paying more than $65 billion in legal costs for the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, BP Plc is wary of the risk of lawsuits related to climate change. Chief Executive Officer Continue Reading
After the near collapse of his company following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster and a three-year slump in oil prices, BP Chief Executive Officer Bob Dudley is hardly relaxed. Continue Reading
The UK government announced on Thursday plans to facilitate timely decisions on shale gas exploration planning applications in England as part of a plan to reduce dependence on gas imports Continue Reading
The British economy could get a new lifeline by tapping into domestic resources of shale natural gas, the British secretary for energy said Thursday. “Shale gas development is of national Continue Reading
We normally associate Cornwall in England with scones and cream teas … or, if we are really metal nerds, we associate the sometimes-sunny southeast country of the British Isles with Continue Reading
The United Kingdom is very diligent in its efforts to become a greener country. This year, local media were proud to report that electricity produced by wind and solar installations Continue Reading
Although some companies have learned to ride the waves of geopolitics quite efficiently, still in most cases political tensions only complicate the dealings of energy companies. The Skripal poisoning case Continue Reading
Hybrid cars that rely on traditional engines, such as the Toyota Prius, would be banned by 2040 under clean-air plans being drawn up by the UK government that would outlaw Continue Reading
New production from new projects contributed to one of the best quarters since 2014, when oil prices were over $100 per barrel, BP said Tuesday. The British supermajor reported total Continue Reading
BP’s profits surged in the first three months of the year to their highest since mid-2014, driven by a recovery in oil and gas prices and rapid growth in production. Continue Reading
BP’s oil production dropped 5% year on year in the first quarter and it forecast Tuesday a further fall in output in the current quarter, despite a recent surge in Continue Reading
Britain is banking on a series of ancient mines on its southwestern tip to secure a slice of the global electric car revolution. The English county of Cornwall and the Continue Reading
The UK’s Tullow Oil said Wednesday it would cease all natural gas output from its assets in the UK Southern North Sea in the third quarter of this year in Continue Reading
The UK will need to have one well per day fracked in the period between 2021 and 2035 if it wants to reduce its natural gas imports by 50 percent, Continue Reading
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Digest of U.K. Energy Statistics and National Statistics: Energy Trends Note: 2017 values are estimates based on data through September. In the United Continue Reading
