Cuadrilla today announced results from its flow-testing of the UK’s first ever horizontal shale gas exploration well, drilled through the shale rock more than 7,500 feet beneath the Preston New Road exploration site in Lancashire. The company, based in nearby Bamber Bridge, said that the drilling, hydraulic fracturing and flow testing of the first horizontal …
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The scientists and engineers of tomorrow have been out to impress the judges in a bid to win their school a share of a £2,000 prize fund. Teams from eight Fylde coast secondary schools showed off their science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) knowledge at Blackpool and the Fylde College. They were vying for the …
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Lancashire’s shale gas exploration company Cuadrilla today said it was demobilising some equipment from its exploration site before Christmas, but already looking forward to welcoming it back in 2019. And the team, which is based in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire and operates the UK’s first horizontal shale gas exploration wells in Preston New Road, near Blackpool, …
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“A series of micro seismic events in Blackpool have been recorded on the British Geological Survey (BGS) website today 14 December. The largest recorded was 0.9ML (local magnitude) at about 2pm. This occurred whilst we were hydraulically fracturing at the Preston New Road exploration site. “Detected by Cuadrilla’s sophisticated monitoring system, and verified by the …
A series of micro seismic events in Blackpool have been recorded on the British Geological Survey website this morning following hydraulic fracturing at our shale gas exploration site in Preston New Road, Lancashire. The largest recorded was 1.5ML (local magnitude) at about 11.20am. This occurred after hydraulic fracturing had finished for the day. According to …
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Work to restore the Grange Hill shale gas exploration site located near Singleton in Lancashire has been completed, with the area returned to its original pre-exploration use as agricultural land. Cuadrilla moved equipment on site during the summer to start the restoration work, which included decommissioning and plugging the well. The exploratory well at Grange …
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We are continuing to test the shale gas exploration well in Preston New Road, Lancashire, and the coiled tubing remains clearly and visibly attached to the coiled tubing tower on site above the well. We have completed a series of smaller fracks along the length of the horizontal well to gather data to assess the …
Cuadrilla’s statement following a recent report in The Guardian, which referred to a comment made during a private meeting with The Green Party on a tour of the Preston New Road site earlier this year. A spokesperson for Cuadrilla said that the interpretation of the quote was a disappointing attempt by the Green Party to …
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Cuadrilla announced today that it has begun to see natural gas flow to the surface from its shale exploration well at the Preston New Road site. The gas returned to surface, along with water being recycled from the shale rock, after hydraulic fracturing a small section of the shale surrounding the first horizontal exploration well. …
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Cuadrilla can confirm that a micro seismic event measuring 1.1ML (local magnitude) was detected at about 11.30am today (Monday, October 29) whilst the team were hydraulically fracturing at our exploration site in Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, Lancashire. This is the latest micro seismic event to be detected by the organisation’s highly sophisticated monitoring systems …
