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Third Energy

Background

Third Energy does not have any public statements regarding climate change.

In September 2017, Jitesh Gadhia was appointed a senior independent director of the firm, and he is also the non-executive director of UK Government Investments, a Treasury body that advises on government support for ailing businesses. Meanwhile, another Treasury body Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), is looking into Third Energy.¹⁴

The following is a list of Directors and/or Secretaries for Third Energy Companies based on data collected via Companies House UK:

Name & Status	Halo Offshore UK	Third Energy Onshore	Third Energy Services	Third Energy Trading	Third Energy UK Gas	Third Energy EBT Trustee
Active
Alan Linn		Y		Y	Y
Andrew Mortimer	Y		Y
Grant George Emms			Y
Paul Savage		Y		Y	Y	Y
Rasik Valand	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Resigned
Adam Douglas Greene		Y	Y	Y	Y
Aidan Joseph Heavey					Y
Alan Graham Martin					Y
Alison Jane Shields					Y
Asher Fogel		Y	Y	Y	Y
Averil Eager					Y
Bernhard Cociancig		Y			Y
Brian James					Y
Charles Simon Falla		Y
David Ellix	Y
David James Robottom	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Denis Maurice Bizeau					Y
Gary Neus		Y		Y	Y
Graham Philip May		Y	Y	Y	Y
Grant George Emms	Y	Y	Y		Y
Henry Nelson Schneider		Y	Y	Y	Y
James Anthony Lobban		Y			Y
James Bartholomew Boffardi		Y	Y	Y	Y
Jeremy James Tyrie	Y
John Alexander Gordon Dewar	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
John Godwin Crick					Y
John Henry Edward Butterfield					Y
Joseph Patrick Reynolds		Y	Y	Y	Y
Keith Robertson Cochrane		Y
Lord Jitesh Kishorekumar Gadhia		Y
Lourens Daniel John Erasmus		Y			Y
Matthew John O’Donoghue					Y
Matthew Maher					Y
Michael Roderick Sturt					Y
Patrick Clive Spink					Y
Richard Augustine			Y
Richard Nevins			Y
Robert Blair Thomas		Y
Robert Desmond McVeigh		Y			Y
Robert Evans Jones					Y
Roger David Barrett					Y
Roger Gordon Connon						Y
Roland Fox					Y
Thomas Alton Clarence-Smith					Y
Thomas Gerard Hickey					Y
Thomas Mehlberg		Y

February 7, 2021

September 2018

Third Energy’s Chairman, Keith Cochrane, and Director Jitesh Gadhia, a Conservative party peer and Tory donor, reportedly resigned from the company’s board due to its inactivity. The resignations came after reports that Conservative MPs were preparing to rebel against new rules that would take fracking planning out of the hands of local authorities.¹⁸ ¹⁹

September 2017

June 2017

Third Energy was rapped on the knuckles by the Environment Agency, which gave an official warning that the firm breached one of its environmental permits by failing to publish correct emissions data, which concerned air quality data at the Knapton Generating Station in the Vale of Pickering. The company was also criticised for failing to use an agreed method to monitor groundwater quality at a nearby gas well.²²

May 2017

Dec 2016

May 2015

2013

Third Energy drilled the well near Kirby Misperton to sample gas at the site — “Analysis of the gas bearing zones in the deeper Bowland section concluded that they should be appraised further. To assess their commercial potential, hydraulic fracturing will be used to stimulate gas flow from these inter-bedded sandstone and shale sections,” the firm stated on its website.²⁷

*Third Energy Onshore acquired the fracking licence blocks in Yorkshire through buying Viking UK Gas and RGS Energy Services in 2011. Its assets also include Knapton power station, pipelines, and mature producing fields.