Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The Labour Party’s 2024 manifesto – which the new leader said he would follow – had pledged to not issue new licences but to honour existing ones. At…
The Trump administration on Monday moved to relax environmental rules governing the extraction of oil, gas and coal from public lands across the country. The Interior Department issued a pair of proposed rules that would reduce costs and weaken requirements for fossil fuel companies that operate on federal lands. The first rule would drastically lower…
Nine Native American tribes in South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska are suing the federal government in a bid to stop exploratory drilling for graphite near a sacred site in the Black Hills. A small group of opponents has been demonstrating at the drilling location and at the mining company’s headquarters in what they call a land…
The Trump administration is creating a new office that critics say could weaken the environmental oversight of oil drilling and seabed mining in territorial waters. The new agency, the Marine Minerals Administration, will be formed by reunifying two offices that had been split up after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in an effort to…
Environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Monday to stop the British oil giant BP, which operated the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform that exploded in 2010, from starting a new $5 billion drilling project in ultra-deep waters in the Gulf of Mexico. Last month, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved the project,…
Shorouk Express Economy Materials 6 September 2025 03:22 (UTC +04:00) Photo: Official information source of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Global gas drilling activity continued its upward trend in June 2025, even as exploration results remained subdued, according to the latest Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) report. Access to…
Shorouk Express Economy Materials 1 August 2025 06:02 (UTC +04:00) In the second quarter of 2025, SOCAR conducted 18,000 meters of drilling and produced 1.8 million tons of oil along with 2 billion cubic meters of gas. National gas output reached 12.7 billion cubic meters, a 1.4% rise from the same period in…
