The East Midlands Oil Province, also known as the East Midlands Petroleum Province, covers the petroliferous geological area across the north-eastern part of the

East Midlands The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England. It comprises the eastern half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It consists of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire (except for North Lincolnshire and North East ...

of England that has a few small oil fields. The largest field in the province is the Welton oil field, near

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. It is the second largest onshore oil field in the UK.

Geography

It comprises

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south a ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

North Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Lincolnshire, England. At the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Census, it had a population of 167,446. T ...

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. Th ...

and northern

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...

History

UK oil production

The UK's first oil field was discovered in the East Midlands, at

Hardstoft Hardstoft is a hamlet in Derbyshire, England. It is located four miles east of Clay Cross, on the B6039 road. The Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company found small quantities of oil near Hardstoft in 1919 under encouragement from the British govern ...

in east

in 1919. Prior to this, from 1851, oil shale in the Midland Valley in Scotland was used, until 1962. With

North Sea oil North Sea oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons, comprising liquid petroleum and natural gas, produced from petroleum reservoirs beneath the North Sea. In the petroleum industry, the term "North Sea" often includes areas such as the Norwegian ...

, Britain became self-sufficient with oil and became a net exporter of oil in 1981, with exports peaking in 1985 and production peaking in 1999. The UK became a net exporter of gas in 1997 and a net importer of gas in 2004, and also a net importer of oil in 2004. UK consumption of petroleum increases each year. Per capita consumption of oil annually is about 1.3 tonnes. The UK has the capacity to refine 92 million tonnes of crude oil a year. Currently the North Sea is producing around 1.5m barrels of oil a day. The peak was in 2000 at 4.5m a day. The

Brent oilfield The Brent field was an oil and gas field operated by Shell UK Limited. It was located in 470ft of water, in the East Shetland Basin of the North Sea, north-east of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The field was discovered in 1971 ...

is being decommissioned. The

United Kingdom Continental Shelf The UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is the region of waters surrounding the United Kingdom, in which the country has mineral rights. The UK continental shelf includes parts of the North Sea, the North Atlantic, the Irish Sea and the English Channel; th ...

has reserves of between 12 - 24bn barrels. In 2014, around 14% of the UK's gas came from Russia via Ukraine.

Onshore oil

The highest production was September 1943, when 10,049 tons produced, or 335 tons per day. This record would be next exceeded in March 1963, when 10,478 tons, or 338 tons per day were produced. In 1958, it produced 80,000 tons, with oil, in the 1950s, taken to

Pumpherston Pumpherston is a village in West Lothian, Scotland. Originally a small industrial village housing works for the nearby shale mine and works, it now forms the eastern part of the new town of Livingston, which was constructed to the west of Pumph ...

in Scotland. In 1960 it produced 85,000 tons, and in 106,000 tons in 1961. In 1964 the East Midlands fields produced 127,491 tons, and in 1974, the East Midlands produced 80,000 tonnes. But in 1979, the North Sea produced 76 million tonnes. If production was less than 250,000 tonnes per six months, no Petroleum Revenue Tax was applied. By 1967 Dorset was producing 10,000 tons per year. Wytch Farm was discovered in 1973 by the Gas Council, on the

Isle of Purbeck The Isle of Purbeck is a peninsula in Dorset, England. It is bordered by water on three sides: the English Channel to the south and east, where steep cliffs fall to the sea; and by the marshy lands of the River Frome, Dorset, River Frome and Poo ...

directly south of Poole, at 3,000 to 4,000 ft depth, with production from May 1979. But, importantly, only after further geophysical exploration in December 1977, did anyone realise how huge the oil field was, when drilling took place at 5,000 ft. This discovery made companies look much more for onshore oil. But subsequently nothing was anything remotely as enormous as Wytch Farm. The oil, from Dorset, was taken by train to South Wales. In 1980, UK onshore oilfields produced 240,000 tonnes of oil, mostly from Wytch Farm. This had doubled from the year before. Until 1990, relatively little oil was produced by UK onshore oil industry. This rapidly increased to peak between 1991 and 1999, where around 5 million tonnes of oil was produced each year - 5.4 million tonnes, the most, was produced in 1996. Since 1999 it has gradually declined to around 1 million tonnes a year. Onshore UK natural gas peaked in 2001. Cumulatively, onshore oil production has produced around 2% (around ) of offshore (North Sea) production. The

Wytch Farm Wytch Farm is an oil field and processing facility in Dorset, England. It is the largest onshore oil field in Western Europe. The facility, taken over by Perenco in 2011, was previously operated by BP. It is located in a coniferous forest on Wytc ...

oil field in Dorset, the largest onshore oilfield in Europe and run by BP, has reserves on its own of around of oil. The East Midlands Province provides 11% of UK onshore oil, 65% of the total excluding Wytch farm. So far, the Province has provided around 6 million tonnes of oil. In total, the UK has around 15 million tonnes of onshore oil left. Planning permission for drilling was much quicker in Lincolnshire than in Hampshire and Dorset. Although onshore oil reserves are much less, it costs much less to find and develop onshore oil. Depleted onshore oilfields at Gainsborough and Welton will be used for gas storage, of which the UK has little allocated reserves. The UK has reserves of 12 days of gas, compared to 91 days in France and 77 days in Germany.

Discoveries

Oil was discovered at

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Hills in the 1920s. In June 1939, BP (then the D'Arcy Exploration Company) discovered oil at

Eakring Eakring is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. Its population at the 2011 census was 419, and this increased to 440 residents for the 2021 census. There was sizeable oil production there i ...

; although this was not announced until September 1944. During the war the field produced over 300,000 tons of oil or 2,250,000 barrels from 170 pumps. Oil was also drilled for during the war at

Caunton Caunton is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire on the A616, north-west of Newark-on-Trent, in the NG23 postcode. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 483, and this increased ...

and Kelham Hills. It was a discovery of oil between

Scothern Scothern is a small village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north-east of the county town of Lincoln, and has approximately 1000 inhabitants (892 according to the 2001 Census). At the 2011 ...

and Sudbrooke in September 1980 that led to the Welton field being discovered. More drilling was conducted in Welton in 1981, and the French company CGG conducted seismic surveys. BP drilled near Doddington in November 1980. Eakring was only abandoned in 1986, after producing 7MMbbl. Eakring had secondary recovery, with compressed water from the end of the war. By the end of war Eakring production had dropped to 20,000 tons per year.

Welton Gathering Centre

This is actually at Reepham near

Sudbrooke Sudbrooke is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north-east of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Lincoln. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1 ...

on railway, and opened on 21 May 1986 by Alick Buchanan-Smith, the Energy minister. Production began at of oil per day, rising to 3,000. The Centre is the home of Star Energy (East Midlands) Ltd on ''Barfield Lane''. In the early 1990s, a 1,000 tonnes of oil was taken on a train to Immingham every other day. When building the centre, BP discovered a plesiosaurus which was displayed in Scunthorpe Natural History Museum.

Oil companies

In February 1976, Tony Benn, the Secretary of State for Energy, gave permission for British Gas, BP Petroleum Development and Candecca Resources (on the

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, mostly owned by Sceptre Resources of Canada, originally called Decca Resources) to drill in the area. Candecca bought Cambrian Exploration in January 1980, which gave it joint ownership of the Humbly Grove field in Hampshire. In February 1982 Esso bought Candecca. Trafalgar House bought Candecca in January 1984 for £79m. BP bought Candecca in July 1987 for £21m from Trafalgar House. Candecca Resources Ltd was a subsidiary of BP. It was bought by Kelt UK Ltd in April 1992. Kelt UK Ltd was a subsidiary of Kelt Energy plc and Edinburgh Oil and Gas plc. Most of the oilfield licences were owned by BP Exploration, when they were bought by Pentex Oil of Aberdeen in March 1989. Star Energy bought Pentex Oil in August 2005 for £38.5m.

Geology

The Province comprises a major series of

Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a Geologic time scale, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the ...

rift In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics. Typical rift features are a central linear downfaulted depression, called a graben, or more commonly a half-graben ...

basins. Oil is found in Silesian

sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

s and fractured

Dinantian The Dinantian is a series or epoch from the Lower Carboniferous system in western Europe between 359.2 and 326.4 million years ago. It can stand for a series of rocks in Europe or the time span in which they were deposited. The Dinantian is eq ...

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

Welton oil fields

Most oil is transported by road tanker. It is the main part of the East Midlands Province oilfield, where thirty three oil fields have been discovered, including areas outside of Lincolnshire. Oil had been discovered by BP at Corringham in May 1958, at 4,400 ft, with a small blowout covering a nearby field. Oil was found at Gainsborough in 1960, Glentworth in 1961, and

Torksey __NOTOC__ Torksey is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 875. It is situated on the A156 road, south of Gainsborough and north-west of Lincoln, an ...

in 1962. Oil was also found in

Nocton Nocton is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the B1202 road, south-east from Lincoln city centre. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 819. To the east ...

in the 1960s.

East Glentworth

Found near the A15 and B1398, just south-west of

Caenby Corner Caenby Corner is a small area in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, at the roundabout junction of the A15 and A631 roads. Close to the village of Caenby, it is situated on what was a major Roman road known as Ermine Street lea ...

and near the (now exhausted) Glentworth Oilfield at Glentworth. Discovered in March 1987 by BP, wit
production
starting in February 1993. Formerly owned by Pentex Oil UK Ltd and now owned by

Star Energy Star Energy was a British onshore oil exploration company until acquired by IGas Energy in December 2011 History It was formed in October 1999 essentially as a management buyout of operations in the Weald Basin, acquired from Soco Internatio ...

. Taken by road tanker to Gainsborough.

Beckering

British Gas found oil in January 1990 at 5,000ft, producing around 120 barrels per day.

Scampton North

Scampton B was discovered in October 1985 by BP wit
production
starting in February 1989. It produced around 250 barrels per day. Owned by Star Energy (East Midlands) Ltd and originally run by Candecca. Transported by road tanker to the Welton Gathering Centre at Reepham. The original Scampton A Oilfield ceased production in 1988.

Cold Hanworth

Discovered in September 1997 by Candecca, wit
production
starting in September 1998 at

Cold Hanworth Cold Hanworth is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north-north-east from the city and county town of Lincoln, and just north of the A46. It is combined with Hackthorn to form the ...

. Owned by Star Energy (East Midlands) Ltd, although originally run by Candecca. Transported by road tanker to the Welton Gathering Centre, which is just south of the oil field at Reepham.

Stainton

Just north-east of Welton at

Stainton by Langworth Stainton by Langworth is a hamlet and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated less than north-west from the A158 road, north-east from Lincoln and north-west from Horncastle. There is a war memoria ...

. Discovered by BP in July 1984, with production starting June 1987. Permission for producing oil was given in June 1986. It produced around 250 barrels per day. Owned by Star Energy (East Midlands) Ltd. Originally run by Candecca
Situated
on the Lincoln-Market Rasen (Newark - Grimsby) railway line and taken by road to the Welton rail terminal at Reepham.

Fiskerton Airfield

Discovered in November 1997 by Cirque with production starting in August 1998 on th
former

RAF Fiskerton Royal Air Force Fiskerton or more simply RAF Fiskerton was a Royal Air Force List of former Royal Air Force stations, substation located north of the Lincolnshire village of Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, Fiskerton, east of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, E ...

. It is owned 48% by Cirque Energy (UK) Ltd, 32% by Altaquest Energy Corp (UK) Ltd, 18% by Courage Energy UK Ltd and 2% by Mermaid Resources (UK) Ltd. Run by Cirque Energy. Pipeline to the Welton Gathering Centre.

Welton

Largest of the fields, with about 2 million tonnes of initial oil reserves at Welton. Discovered in February 1981 by BP with production starting in November 1984. It would produce around 3,000 barrels per day. Owned by Star Energy (East Midlands) Ltd. Originally run by Candecca and BP. Transported by rail. It is the second largest onshore oilfield in the UK after

Dorset Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...

. The next largest is

Stockbridge, Hampshire Stockbridge is a town and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. It had a population of 592 at the 2011 census. It sits astride the River Test and at the foot of Stockbridge Down. Description The town is situated on th ...

, run by Star Energy. It is even bigger than Eakring, which kept the UK going in World War Two. It is very much larger than all the other onshore fields. It has a predicted total production of . On Tuesday 3 May 1994 an oil

blow out ''Blow Out'' is a 1981 American independent mystery thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a movie sound effects technician from Philadelphia who, while recording sounds for a low-bud ...

took place near Scothern. The primary school was 200 metres from the site, with children being sprayed with oil in the lunchtime. Candecca paid out compensation.

Nettleham

BP drilled in the Greetwell Lane area in September 1981. Discovered in March 1983 by BP with production starting in October 1985. Owned by Star Energy (East Midlands) Ltd, although originally run by BP and Candecca. Oil transported by pipeline to the Welton Gathering Centre.

Keddington

Next door and north-east of

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on the

River Lud The Louth Navigation was a canalisation of the River Lud. It ran for from Louth in Lincolnshire, England, to Tetney Haven, at the mouth of the Humber. It was authorised by act of Parliament in 1763 and completed in 1770, under the superv ...

at Keddington. Discovered in January 1998 by Candecca, with production beginning in September 1998. Formerly owned 65% by ROC Oil (UK) Ltd and 35% by ROC Oil (CEL) Ltd. Bought in March 2007 by Egdon Resources for £250,000 with the two wells closed. Egdon restarted production in April 2007 and producing about a day. Up to Feb 2009, produced of oil. Estimated to be of oil. Taken by road tanker to the Welton Gathering Centre.

Farley's Wood (Nottinghamshire)

Owned by Onshore Production Services Ltd (OPS) or OOSL. Discovered in March 1983, production started July 1985, road tanker to Welton. Originally owned by EMOG
Situated
in between Walesby and

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Egmanton (Nottinghamshire)

The field was developed by BP Petroleum Development. Production started in July 1955 and production peaked in 1958.

Gainsborough based fields

None of these fields are in Lincolnshire, bu
oil
from the petroleum play i
collected
at

Gainsborough Gainsborough or Gainsboro may refer to: Places * Gainsborough, Ipswich, Suffolk, England ** Gainsborough Ward, Ipswich * Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, a town in England ** Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency) * Gainsborough, Saskatchewan, Ca ...

. The area around Gainsborough known as the Gainsborough Trough.

Beckingham West (Nottinghamshire)

Discovered in July 1985 by BP with production starting in October 1987. Formerly owned by Pentex Oil UK Ltd. Oil transported by pipeline to Gainsborough. The field is operated by

IGas Energy IGas Energy Plc is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, incorporated and operating in the United Kingdom, with headquarters in London. The company started and incorporated in 2003 to produce natural gas, primarily coalbed ...

which acquired Star Energy in 2011. Situated just off the A631 at

Beckingham Beckingham may refer to: *Beckingham, Lincolnshire Beckingham is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish (including Stapleford) at the 2011 census was 452. It is ...

. Known also as the Gainsborough-Beckingham oil field. Production is near the Beckingham Marshes' RSPB nature reserve with daily production of 300 barrels of crude oil and 1 million cubic feet of natural gas. The gas is piped to a nearby power plant. The wells in the field were fracked using lower fluid volumes than used for Shale techniques. This method is similar to, but with lower volumes than hydraulic fracturing for the extraction of

shale gas Shale gas is an unconventional natural gas that is found trapped within shale formations. Since the 1990s, a combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has made large volumes of shale gas more economical to produce, and ...

Kirklington (Nottinghamshire)

Situated
just south of Eakring towards Newark on the A617 at Kirklington. Owned by Star Energy Oil & Gas Limited 75% and Star Energy Oil UK Limited 25%. Formerly owned by Pentex. Discovered in December 1985 by BP with production starting March 1991. Taken by road tanker to Gainsborough.

Rempstone (Nottinghamshire)

Far south of Nottinghamshire at junction of A60 and A6006 at

Rempstone Rempstone is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England. It is close to Nottingham, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray and Shepshed as well as the Leicestershire border. The population of the civil parish at t ...

in the far south of Nottinghamshire. Owned by Star Energy Oil & Gas Ltd 75% and Oil UK Ltd 25%. Discovered in December 1985 by Pentex, with production started June 1991. Formerly owned by Pentex. Road tanker to Gainsborough. Operated by Star.

Long Clawson (Leicestershire)

Owned by Star Energy Oil & Gas Ltd 75% and Star Energy Oil UK Ltd 25%. Discovered in March 1986, with production started December 1990. Originally owned by Pentex. Road tanker to Gainsborough. Situated o
Clawson Hill
at

Long Clawson Long Clawson is a village and former civil parish, now included in that of Clawson, Hose and Harby, in the Borough of Melton, Melton district and the county of Leicestershire, England. Being in the Vale of Belvoir, the village is enclosed by far ...

Other independent oil fields

These are not run by Star Energy and oil is usually tankered direct to

ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational corporation engaged in hydrocarbon exploration and production. It is based in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas. The company has operations in 15 countries and has production in t ...

Humber Refinery The Humber Refinery is a British oil refinery in South Killingholme, North Lincolnshire. It is situated south of the railway line next to the A160; Prax Group's Lindsey Oil Refinery is north of the railway line. It is situated approximatel ...

South Killingholme South Killingholme is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,108. The parish was predominately agricultural and sparsely populated and the village small until the ...

near

Immingham Immingham is a town and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England, on the south-west bank of the Humber, Humber Estuary, northwest of Grimsby. It was relatively unpopulated until the early 1900s, when the Great Central Railway began de ...

Whisby

Discovered in January 1985 by BP with production starting in May 1990 at

Whisby Moor Whisby Moor is a small moor situated close to the A46 road, west of North Hykeham, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Geography Whisby Moor is situated geographically south-west from Lincoln city centre, with the vil ...

near

North Hykeham North Hykeham is an industrial town and civil parish in the North Kesteven, North Kesteven District of Lincolnshire, England. It is located directly south of the city of Lincoln, England, Lincoln, where it forms the southern part of the wider L ...

. Owned and ran by Blackland Park Exploration Ltd, although originally ran by EMOG (East Midlands Oil & Gas - a UK division of Fortune Oil). Th
Whisby 4
and now the Whisby 5 wells are the currently producing wells and have now cumulatively more than doubled all historical production. Oil is transported by road tanker to Immingham.

West Firsby

Discovered in January 1988 by

Enterprise Oil Enterprise Oil was a major UK independent exploration and production company based in Europe, with core areas of activity in the United Kingdom and Ireland, mainland Europe, Brazil and the Gulf of Mexico. The company was once a constituent of the ...

(former oil division of

British Gas plc British Gas (trading as Scottish Gas in Scotland) is an energy and home services provider in the United Kingdom. It is the trading name of British Gas Services Limited and British Gas New Heating Limited, both subsidiaries of Centrica. Serving ...

) being found at 6,000 ft,''Times'' Tuesday February 16 1988, page 25 wit
production
starting in August 1991 at

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north of Lincoln, just west of

Spridlington Spridlington is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately north from the city and county town of Lincoln, and just off the A15 road. According to the 2001 Census the village ...

. Owned 53% by

Tullow Oil Tullow Oil plc is a multinational oil and gas exploration company founded in Tullow, Ireland, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange. History The company was founded by Aidan Hea ...

and 47% by Edinburgh Oil & Gas plc. Originally ran by Tullow Oil and Enterprise Oil, no
ran
by Europa since May 2003. Taken by road tanker to Immingham's ConocoPhillips Humber Refinery. Sourced by early Namurian pro-

deltaic A river delta is a landform, archetypically triangular, created by the deposition of the sediments that are carried by the waters of a river, where the river merges with a body of slow-moving water or with a body of stagnant water. The creati ...

shales. Found on a

Variscan The Variscan orogeny, or Hercynian orogeny, was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia) and Gondwana to form the supercontinent of Pangaea. Nomenclature The name ''Variscan ...

inversion

anticline In structural geology, an anticline is a type of Fold (geology), fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest Bed (geology), beds at its core, whereas a syncline is the inverse of an anticline. A typical anticline is convex curve, c ...

on a boundary fault of the Dinatian-Namurian

Gainsborough Trough Gainsborough or Gainsboro may refer to: Places * Gainsborough, Ipswich, Suffolk, England ** Gainsborough Ward, Ipswich * Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, a town in England ** Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency) * Gainsborough, Saskatchewan, Cana ...

Crosby Warren

It was discovered in May 1986 by RTZ (

Rio Tinto Group Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian multinational company that is the world's second largest metals and mining corporation (behind BHP). It was founded in 1873 when a group of investors purchased a mine complex on the Río Tinto, in Hu ...

), with production starting in October 1987. Just north-east of

Scunthorpe Scunthorpe () is an industrial town in Lincolnshire, England, and the county's third most populous settlement after Lincoln, England, Lincoln and Grimsby, with a population of 81,286 in 2021. It is the administrative centre and largest settleme ...

, near the junction of the A1077 and A1029, just north of the Corus steel works. Just south of a

Romano-British The Romano-British culture arose in Britain under the Roman Empire following the Roman conquest in AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia. It arose as a fusion of the imported Roman culture with that of the indigenous Britons, ...

settlement. Originally run by Edinburgh Oil & Gas, then bought by Europa Oil & Gas on 30 November 2006. Oil is transported by road tanker.

Newton on Trent

Discovered in April 1998 by AltaQuest with production starting in September 1998. Owned by Courage Energy (UK) Ltd and ran by AltaQuest. Oil is taken by road tanker to the ConocoPhillips Humber refinery in Immingham. Production ended in July 2000. Run by Blackland, and previously owned by Floyd Energy
Situated
just south of the village.

Future oil fields

Possible production may take place at Broughton and

Brigg Brigg (Wikipedia:IPA for English#Key, /'brɪg/) is a market town in North Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 5,076 in the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 UK census, the population increased to 5,626 at the 2011 census. The town lies ...

in North Lincolnshire.

References

External links

TV report in 1995

BBC Lincolnshire

Hydrocarbon prospectivity of Britain's onshore basins
(PDF)
Map of onshore fields in Britain, including the East Midlands Province
(PDF)

News items

Edgdon Resources drilling at Dukes Wood in January 2010
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