Operations

East Midlands

Egdon Resources has been active in the East Midlands from 2000. Historically the company’s activities have concentrated on conventional exploration and development. The margins of the Humber Basin have been a focus following the acquisition of the Keddington oil field in 2006 and Encore Resources onshore assets in 2010.

Egdon has built a significant shale exploration acreage position in the Gainsborough Trough through legacy interests, farm-ins, the 2014 Alkane Energy acquisition the 14th Licence round and other acquisitions. The basin was the subject of intense bidding in the 14th Round which saw INEOS and Cuadrilla enter the play.

Egdon subsequently farmed out some of this acreage to Total and planning consent for the first shale exploration wells in the basin Springs Road-1&2 operated by IGas on PEDL140 was granted in November 2016 (EDR 14.5% carried).  In November 2017 INEOS acquired certain of Total’s interests in the Gainsborough Trough shale play.

North East England & North Sea

Egdon Resources has been active in exploration and production in the Cleveland Basin in the North East since 2000 and has drilled several exploration wells and developed the Kirkleatham gas field on PEDL068.  

Offshore, our non-operated Ceres gas field continues to experience a late life renaisance.  

Southern England

Egdon Resources has been active in southern England since 1997 drilling its first exploration well – West Compton-1 in the Wessex Basin in 2002. The Waddock Cross discovery was appraised by Egdon in 2004 and 2005, and developed in 2013. This challenging field with a thin oil zone and water drive holds over 57 million barrels of oil in has been high graded for redevelopment.
In the Weald Basin Egdon has the shut-in non-operated mature Avington oil field where the operator is progressing a programme to reinstate production.