A micro seismic event of 0.76ML (local magnitude) was detected just after 11.30am this morning at Cuadrilla’s shale gas exploration site in Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, Lancashire. Cuadrilla was hydraulically fracturing the shale rock adjacent to a horizontal well at the time and the seismicity is classed as a red event in line with …
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CUADRILLA STATEMENT ON 0.3ML AMBER EVENT
A micro seismic event of 0.3ML (local magnitude) was detected just after 4pm this afternoon at Cuadrilla’s shale gas exploration site in Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, Lancashire, which will be classed as an amber event in line with the traffic light monitoring system regulated by the Oil and Gas Authority. It is anticipated that …
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING TO GO AHEAD AT SHALE GAS EXPLORATION SITE IN LANCASHIRE
Cuadrilla confirms that it plans to go ahead tomorrow (13 October) with the start of hydraulic fracturing operations at its Preston New Road shale gas exploration site in Lancashire. At the High Court in London today (12 October) Mr Justice Supperstone dismissed a last minute request for an interim injunction to prevent this from happening, …
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CUADRILLA STATEMENT ON POSSIBLE INJUNCTION
“We are aware that a local anti-fracking campaigner has threatened to lodge a request for the Court to issue an injunction to stop hydraulically fracturing at our Preston New Road shale gas exploration site pending the determination of a Judicial Review (JR) case against Lancashire County Council (LCC). That JR claim asserts that LCC’s emergency …
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CUADRILLA TO START HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN LANCASHIRE WITH GAS FLOW RESULTS EXPECTED IN THE NEW YEAR
Cuadrilla expects to start hydraulically fracturing the shale rock around the first of its two horizontal shale gas exploration wells at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire in the next week. The hydraulic fracturing process at Preston New Road will take approximately three months to complete for both exploration wells. The fracturing of the …
CUADRILLA WELCOMES ANGUS ENERGY’S COMPLETION OF FLOW TEST OF OIL AT BALCOMBE
Cuadrilla Balcombe Limited is pleased that Angus Energy Plc, the current operator of the Balcombe exploration site in West Sussex, has safely finished a seven day well test of the horizontal well there. The well, Balcombe-2z, flowed at 853 Bopd¹ equivalent and 1,587 Bopd equivalent during two separate test runs. Francis Egan, CEO of Cuadrilla, …
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CUADRILLA PUBLISHES BACKGROUND SEISMICITY DATA AHEAD OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING
Cuadrilla has launched a new function on its ePortal to enable the public to view records of daily seismic monitoring around its Preston New Road shale gas exploration site and the surrounding area in Lancashire. The new tool also documents incidents of naturally occurring seismicity across the NorthWest since late 2017 and this will be …
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CUADRILLA GRANTED HYDRAULIC FRACTURING CONSENT FOR SECOND HORIZONTAL SHALE GAS WELL
Cuadrilla has today received hydraulic fracturing consent from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for its second horizontal shale exploration well at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire. Consent was granted for the first horizontal well in July this year. Planning and permits required for both wells are already secured. Francis …
CUADRILLA SUBMITS APPLICATION FOR FINAL HYDRAULIC FRACTURING CONSENT FOR ITS SECOND HORIZONTAL WELL AT LANCASHIRE SHALE GAS EXPLORATION SITE
Cuadrilla has today (3 August 2018) submitted an application to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for consent to conduct hydraulic fracturing operations in its second horizontal shale gas exploration well at the Preston New Road site in Lancashire. Consent to conduct hydraulic fracturing operations in the first horizontal exploration well on …
CUADRILLA’S INVESTMENT INTO LANCASHIRE TOPS £10M
Cuadrilla has today (25 July) issued its latest “Putting Lancashire First” commitments tracker to include figures up to 30 June 2018. The new figures show that to date over £10m has been invested into the local Lancashire economy by Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas exploration operations. During the second quarter of 2018, Cuadrilla’s direct …
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