Cuadrilla plans to move equipment onto the Preston New Road (PNR) site in the second half of February to start work on plugging the two PNR shale gas exploration wells with cement and removing the valves and surface pipework from the wells and from the site. This work, in industry terminology referred to as “plugging …
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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 …
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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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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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, 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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
