Ed Miliband has opened the door to more drilling in the North Sea despite previously branding projects 'climate vandalism'.
The government has issued new guidance that will allow applications to be resubmitted for the Rosebank oil field and Jackdaw gas field.
However, environmental groups are still urging the Net Zero Secretary to reject the schemes.
The move comes after the Court of Session in Edinburgh upheld a legal challenge to the projects in January, ruling that processes had not been followed in granting consent.
The UK Government and North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) were found to have acted unlawfully by not taking into account emissions resulting from the burning of the extracted fuels.
