Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil

The Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil (OUGO) is a new UK Government office which claims that it 'aims to promote the safe, responsible, and environmentally sound recovery of the UK’s unconventional reserves of gas and oil'. It covers not only the development of shale gas and oil but also other forms of unconventional production such as coal bed methane.

The office sits within the Department of Energy and Climate Change, part of the Energy Development Unit. <ref>