On Thursday 16th February, The Telegraph published an inaccurate article, without comment from Cuadrilla. The article asserts that Cuadrilla’s shale gas exploration wells in Lancashire “produced no burnable gas at all.” The article is categorically wrong on that point and on several others. Each of our two Lancashire gas exploration wells flowed very high-quality natural …
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Government orders “plugging and abandonment” of Britain’s shale wells in midst of energy crisis
The Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) has ordered Britain’s only two horizontal shale wells, operated by Cuadrilla, to be plugged and abandoned. Cuadrilla’s parent company AJ Lucas today announced that Cuadrilla will permanently seal the two shale gas wells drilled at the Preston New Road (PNR) Lancashire shale exploration site, despite concerns about the impact …