Gatwick gas firm backtracks

UK Oil and Gas Investments (UKOG) has issued a clarification regarding its estimation of oil at Gatwick airport. The company said it has not carried out enough work to know how much oil there is. “The Company has not undertaken work outside of its licence areas sufficient to comment on the possible OIP in either […]

Weald oil drilling ‘will be fought’

Environmental campaigners have already pledged to fight any potential drilling for oil in the south east. Today’s announcement of the discovery of potentially 100 billion barrels of oil underneath Gatwick airport and the Weald of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire, has prompted Friends of the Earth to predict developers will face a big public backlash. […]