{"id":63152,"date":"2026-10-20T19:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/uk-government-to-make-jackdaw-gas-field-announcement\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:15:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:15:46","slug":"uk-government-to-make-jackdaw-gas-field-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/uk-government-to-make-jackdaw-gas-field-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government to make Jackdaw gas field announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jackdaw, about 150 miles (241.4km) east of Aberdeen, is a gas field which its operators say could be connected to the UK network within months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rosebank, about 80 miles (128.7km) north-west of Shetland, is Britain&#8217;s largest untapped oil field, which would also produce some gas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The controversial fields have been the subject of years of debates, legal wrangling and public consultations, with arguments from both industry bodies and environmentalists being weighed up by the UK government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Licences for the fields were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-scotland-business-61666693\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">granted by the Conservative UK government<\/a> in 2022 and 2023, which sparked legal challenges from environmental groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Court of Session in Edinburgh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3e1pw7npklo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">ruled last year<\/a> that Rosebank and Jackdaw had been unlawfully approved because the government had failed to take into account the climate impact of burning extracted oil and gas from the sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Environmentalists insist more drilling would be unconscionable, and hamper efforts to cut planet-warming carbon emissions as deadly heatwaves and extreme weather affect people across the globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also claim starting production would not protect energy security and transitioning sooner to greener technologies would be better for supporting jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Industry bodies argue starting production at Rosebank and Jackdaw will provide jobs and improve the UK&#8217;s energy security as overseas conflicts threaten supply.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvze4wx3elj1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackdaw, about 150 miles (241.4km) east of Aberdeen, is a gas field which its operators say could be connected to the UK network within months. Rosebank, about 80 miles (128.7km) north-west of Shetland, is Britain&#8217;s largest untapped oil field, which would also produce some gas. The controversial fields have been the subject of years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[6120,4811,553,369,6745],"class_list":["post-63152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-announcement","tag-field","tag-gas","tag-government","tag-jackdaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63154,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63152\/revisions\/63154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}