Egdon Resources PLC, Odiham, UK, plans another appeal to another local setback to its development of the 2014 Wressle oil discovery in North Lincolnshire, England.
The North Lincolnshire Council Planning Committee has rejected the company’s application to extend planning consent to Aug. 1, 2019.
The committee also rejected its original development application plan in January 2017 and a supplemental application the following July (OGJ Online, July 3, 2017).
On a 2015 test, the discovery well flowed a combined 710 boe/d of oil and natural gas from Carboniferous Ashover Grit, Wingfield Flags, and Penistone Flags.
Egdon plans conventional development with no hydraulic fracturing.
In June, it said it would submit a new development application to account for changes in license interests and new information about the discovery.
Promising a prompt appeal to the latest rejection, Egdon Managing Director Mark Abbott said, “The decision of the committee is clearly disappointing given that the application had been recommended for approval by North Lincolnshire Council’s own professional planning officers, that an appeal for a previous refusal of such an application had been successful, and that we have recently submitted a new application for the development of the Wressle oil field which we strongly believe comprehensively addresses the reasons for the refusal of the original planning applications and the subsequent appeals.”
