Cuadrilla is pleased to announce that it has completed drilling a vertical pilot well to a depth of over 2.7 km through both the Upper and Lower Bowland shale rock intervals at its shale gas exploration site at Preston New Road, Lancashire. The company has recovered some 375 feet of core samples taken across three …
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Cuadrilla is pleased to confirm it has completed all community payments to local residents living near its shale gas exploration site at Preston New Road, Lancashire. In total, 85% of those local residents entitled to a share of the £100,000 community payment for the second exploration well applied. Cuadrilla will make the money from unclaimed …
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Cuadrilla is to host its third public webcast tour and live stream Q&A session at its Preston New Road (PNR) shale gas exploration site. Following the success of the previous tours in October and November, the latest edition of PNR Live will have a special focus on horizontal drilling into shale – which will be …
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Cuadrilla has confirmed to local residents near its shale gas exploration site at Preston New Road, Lancashire, that the £100,000 community benefit payment for the second exploration well will be split proportionately between all households within one and a half kilometres of the site. This decision follows an independent consultation, carried out by MES (Membership …
Cuadrilla has today (26 October) issued its latest “Putting Lancashire First” commitments tracker to include figures up to 30th September 2017. The latest report reveals that during the last quarter, when drilling work began at its Preston New Road site, spend in the Lancashire economy has increased by almost £2 million to a total of …
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Cuadrilla is to become the first UK operator to open up its shale gas exploration site at Preston New Road (PNR) to the public for a webcast tour and live stream Q&A session called PNR Live. This will give everyone in Lancashire, and beyond, the opportunity to see the operations underway at the site. Viewers …
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Cuadrilla has today (17 August) made a payment of £100,000 to an independent Community Benefit Fund which will distribute the money to community projects to be agreed with the community local to the Preston New Road shale gas exploration site. This is in line with the UK Onshore Oil and Gas Community Engagement Charter and …
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Cuadrilla has today (11 August) issued an update to its “Putting Lancashire First” commitments tracker to include figures to 30th June 2017. The latest figures show that the site construction work during April to June this year, at the company’s shale gas exploration site at Preston New Road in Lancashire, has more than doubled the …
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The drilling rig that will be used to drill the first two horizontal wells to be drilled into UK shale rock has been delivered to Cuadrilla’s shale gas exploration site at Preston New Road, Lancashire. Francis Egan, CEO of Cuadrilla, said: “We are very pleased to have taken delivery of the drilling rig to our …
Cuadrilla has today (31 May) issued an update to its “Putting Lancashire First” commitments tracker to include figures to 31st March 2017. The new figures show that since Cuadrilla began operations on its shale gas exploration site at Preston New Road at the start of 2017 the company’s activities have contributed almost the same amount …
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