Onshore oil and gas fields in the United Kingdom

The onshore oil and gas resources in the United Kingdom are located in a number of provinces corresponding to prospective sedimentary basins. Provinces and Basins (from south to north) include the Wessex-Channel Basin, Weald Basin, Worcester Basin, Cheshire Basin, East Midlands Province, West Lancashire Basin, NE England Province, Northumberland-Solway Basin, Midland Valley of Scotland, and the Orcadian Basin.[1]

Background

The Petroleum Act 1998 confers all rights to the UK's petroleum resources to the Crown. These rights are devolved to governments and government bodies. The licensing of exploration and development of England's onshore oil and gas resources is regulated by the Oil & Gas Authority.[2] The OGA can grant licences that confer exclusive rights to search and bore for and get petroleum, over a limited area for a limited time.

The Scotland Act 2016 devolved oil and gas licensing powers to the Scottish Government with effect from 9 February 2018.[3]

In addition, the Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil (OUGO), is a UK Government office that promotes the safe, responsible and environmentally sound recovery of the UK's unconventional reserves of gas and oil.[4]

The onshore oil and gas industry is represented by the United Kingdom Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG) industry body.[5]

UK onshore oil and gas fields

A list of current and historic UK onshore oil and gas fields is given in the table.[6][7][2]

UK Onshore oil and gas fields
Field Location (County, District) Recoverable reserves, billion cubic metres or million tonnes Operational Cumulative production 1975–1993, tonnes Operator (2020) Oil or gas Province, Basin Reservoir geology Source geology
Albury Surrey 0.12 bcm 1994– IGas plc Gas Wessex-Channel Basin,

Weald Basin

 Bridport sands, Great Oolite (Jurassic), Sherwood sandstones (Triassic) Lower Lias (Jurassic clays)
Baxters Copse West Sussex IGas plc
Bletchingley 2 Surrey IGas plc
Godley Bridge Surrey
Avington Hampshire IGas plc Oil
Bletchingley Central Surrey IGas plc
Brockham Surrey Angus Energy
East Herriard Hampshire 30,000 EP UK Investments
Goodworth Hampshire IGas plc
Horndean Hampshire 0.21 million tonnes 1988– 98,000 IGas plc
Horse Hill Surrey UK Oil and Gas
Humbly Grove Hampshire 0.82 million tonnes 1986–date (now gas storage) 469,000 EP UK Investments
Kimmeridge Dorset 1959–date Perenco Oil & Gas
Lidsey West Sussex Angus Energy
Palmers Wood Surrey 0.42 million tonnes 1990– 195,000 IGas plc
Singleton West Sussex 0.35 million tonnes 1980s 78,000 IGas plc
Stockbridge Hampshire 0.684 million tonnes 1990– 168,000 IGas plc
Storrington West Sussex IGas plc
Waddock Cross Dorset Egdon Resources
Wareham Dorset 0.45 million tonnes 1991–date 263,000 Perenco Oil & Gas
Wytch Farm Purbeck, Dorset 41.10 million tonnes 1979–date Perenco Oil & Gas
Everton Nottinghamsire Gas East Midlands Province Silesian sandstones, fractured Dinantian Carboniferous limestones Silesian (Carboniferous) mudstones and coal
Hatfield Moors South Yorkshire 0.14 bcm 1986–date Scottish Power plc
Hatfield West South Yorkshire 1986–2000 (storage since 2000) Scottish Power plc
Ironville Derbyshire Warwick Energy
Saltfleetby Lincolnshire 1999–2018 Forum Energy Services
Trumfleet South Yorkshire 1998– Warwick Energy
Beckering Lincolnshire Oil (for details see East Midlands oil province)
Beckingham and Beckingham West Nottinghamshire 0.01 million tonnes 1987– 10,000 IGas plc
Belvoir Leicestershire
Bothamsall Nottinghamshire IGas plc
Brigg Lincolnshire
Broughton Lincolnshire
Cold Hanworth Lincolnshhire IGas plc
Corringham Lincolnshire IGas plc
Cropwell Butler Nottinghamshire
Crosby Warren Lincolnshire 0.062 million tonnes plus 7 mcm of gas 1987– 59,000 Europa Oil and Gas
Dukes Wood Nottinghamshire Egdon Resources
Eakring Nottinghamshire 1939–1964
East Glentworth Lincolnshire 0.039 million tonnes 1993– 1,000 IGas plc
Egmanton Nottinghamshire IGas plc
Farley's Wood Nottinghamshire 0.03 million tonnes 1985– 27,000 Onshore Oilfield Services Limited
Fiskerton Airfield Lincolnshire Egdon Resources
Gainborough Lincolnshire 1987–date IGas plc
Glentworth Lincolnshire IGas plc
Hemswell Lincolnshire
Keddington Lincolnshire Egdon Resources
Kelham Hills Nottinghamshire
Kinoulton Nottinghamshire
Kirklington Nottinghamshire 0.01 million tonnes 1991– 4,000 Egdon Resources
Long Clawson Leicestershire 0.18 million tonnes 1990– 37,000 IGas plc
Nettleham Lincolnshire 0.16 million tonnes 1984– 159,000 IGas plc
Newton-on-Trent Lincolnshire Blackland Park Exploration
Rempstone Nottinghamshire 0.27 million tonnes 1991– 7,000 IGas plc
Scampton Lincolnshire –1988 IGas plc
Scampton North Lincolnshire 0.20 million tonnes 1989– 95,000 IGas plc
South Leverton Lincolnshire IGas plc
Stainton Lincolnshire 0.03 million tonnes 1987– 17,000 IGas plc
Torksey Lincolnshire
Welton Lincolnshire 2.50 million tonnes 1984– 1,007,000 IGas plc
West Firsby Lincolnshire 0.16 million tonnes 1991– 31,000 Europa Oil and Gas
Whisby Lincolnshire 0.12 million tonnes 1990– 16,000 Blackland Park Exploration
Caythorpe North Yorkshire 0.18 bcm 1992– Centrica Storage Holdings Gas NE England Province Permian (Upper Magnesian) limestones Silesian (Carboniferous) mudstones and coal
Eskdale North Yorkshire 1960–1967
Kirby Misperton North Yorkshire 0.46 bcm 1994– Third Energy Holdings
Lockton North Yorkshire 1969–1974
Malton North Yorkshire 0.27 bcm 1995–date Third Energy Holdings
Marishes North Yorkshire 0.22 bcm 1995–date Third Energy Holdings
Pickering North Yorkshire Third Energy Holdings
Formby Merseyside 1939–1965 Oil West Lancashire Basin Sherwood sandstone (Triassic) Silesian (Carboniferous) mudstones and coal
Elswick Lancashire 1990–date Cuadrilla Resources Gas
Bargeddie North Lanarkshire Gas Midland Valley Scotland Silesian sandstones (Carboniferous) Silesian (Carboniferous) mudstones and coal
Cousland Midlothian 1937–?
Dalkeith Midlothian 1937–? Oil
Milton of Balgonie Fife
– Cheshire, Shropshire Cheshire Basin
– Worcestershire Worcester Basin
– Northumberland, Cumbria Northumberland-Solway Basin
– Orkney, Highland, Moray, Aberdeenshire Orcadian Basin

See also

References
  1. British Geographical Survey (2011). "Onshore Oil and Gas, Mineral Planning Factsheet" (PDF).
  2. Oil & Gas Authority. "Oil & Gas Authority onshore". Oil & Gas Authority. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  3. "Scotland Oil an Gas". gov.scotland. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  4. Department of Energy & Climate Change. "Onshore oil and gas exploration in the UK: regulation and best practice" (PDF). publishing.service.gov. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  5. UKOOG. "UKOOG". UKOOG. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  6. Department of Trade and Industry (1994). The Energy Report. London: HMSO. pp. 23–98, 133. ISBN 0115153802.
  7. "Humbly Energy".
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