Cuadrilla Bowland Limited is applying to Lancashire County Council for planning permission to extend by 24 months the currently approved period for the completion of all works at PNR, including well decommissioning and site restoration. The currently approved period expires in April 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, this planning application does not seek permission …
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UK GOVERNMENT REIMPOSES MORATORIUM ON HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN ENGLAND
In response to today’s written ministerial statement (WMS) reinstating the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, that the Government itself had officially lifted a little over one month ago, Cuadrilla CEO Francis Egan said: “In the middle of an energy and cost of living crisis, when the UK and Europe is increasingly reliant on shale gas shipped …
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UK GOVERNMENT LIFTS MORATORIUM ON HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN ENGLAND
Cuadrilla Resources Limited (“Cuadrilla”) welcomes today’s Government written ministerial statement (WMS) that the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, introduced in November 2019 has been lifted. Cuadrilla CEO Francis Egan said “I am very pleased that the Government has quickly and decisively followed up the Prime Minister’s announcement of two week ago with today’s WMS. Communities across …
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UK GOVERNMENT LIFTS MORATORIUM ON HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN ENGLAND
Cuadrilla Resources Limited (“Cuadrilla”) welcomes today’s Government announcement that the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, introduced in November 2019, is to be lifted. Cuadrilla CEO Francis Egan said “I am very pleased that the new Government has acted quickly to lift the moratorium. This is an entirely sensible decision and recognises that maximizing the UK’s domestic …
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Cuadrilla response to government shale gas review
Responding to the announcement of a shale gas review, Francis Egan, CEO of Cuadrilla Resources Ltd, said: “The Government clearly recognises the huge potential that shale gas offers this country, and this review may be a tentative first step towards overturning the moratorium and exploiting that potential. “Anyone who has been following the science since …
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UK REGULATOR WITHDRAWS NOTICE TO PLUG SHALE GAS WELLS AT PRESTON NEW ROAD (PNR) LANCASHIRE SITE
Cuadrilla Resources Limited (“Cuadrilla”) has been formally advised by the UK Regulator, the North Sea Transition Authority (“NSTA”), that the NSTA is withdrawing the notice it had previously issued requiring Cuadrilla to plug and abandon the two shale gas exploration wells drilled at the PNR site. The two wells will instead be temporarily plugged and …
Francis Egan, CEO of Cuadrilla Resources, re concreting up Britain’s only shale gas wells
Francis Egan, CEO of Cuadrilla Resources, said: “Cuadrilla has spent several months putting plans and contracts in place in order to plug and abandon our two Lancashire shale gas wells. This follows a notice given to us by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) that both wells must be plugged with cement by the end …
Cuadrilla – “delay in engaging with us effectively trumps what’s said in the House of Commons”
Further to the Business Secretary saying in the Commons on 9 March that “it did not necessarily make any sense to concrete over the wells” at the Preston New Road site in Lancashire, Francis Egan, CEO of Cuadrilla Resources, said: “The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has set us a deadline of 30th June for …
Cuadrilla, re reports No.10 wants to reverse concreting of shale gas wells
Further to press reports that No.10 wants to reverse the decision to concrete up Britain’s shale gas wells, Francis Egan, CEO of Cuadrilla Resources, said: “We note with interest the reports that the Prime Minister wants ministers to step in to stop the UK’s only two viable shale gas wells being filled with concrete in …
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Cuadrilla comment on Telegraph article ‘Fracking’s false hope of low-priced energy security’
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 …