On Monday, the council of Lancashire, located in northwestern England, rejected the British fracking company Cuadrilla's plans to develop a new fracking site in Little Plumpton.
Independent oil and gas producer Third Energy has lodged an application for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, at a shale gas site in northeast England, the third such application being assessed by British authorities.
Anti-fracking campaigners have accused the shale industry of wanting companies "to be allowed to mark their own homework" by suggesting independent checks on wells could be done in-house.
Investors in Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the state-run oil company at the center of a kickback scandal in Brazil, expanded their lawsuit against the company by adding claims that auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP turned ...
Capex in the UK’s offshore sector totaled $19 billion last year, according to analysts Wood Mackenzie’s annual UK upstream review. This kept the UK in the top 10 countries for upstream spending globally.