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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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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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 …
Lancashire-based shale gas exploration company Cuadrilla Resources confirms that the AJ Lucas Group Limited (AJL) and Cuadrilla Boards have approved the acquisition by AJL of all of Riverstone’s shareholding interest in Cuadrilla. Following this acquisition, AJL’s holding in Cuadrilla will increase from its current level of 47.6% to approximately 93%, with the remainder of the …
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The Court of Appeal have today dismissed the appeal of three environmental activists found in contempt of court for carrying out direct action protests in breach of an order made in the High Court in June 2018. Cuadrilla’s position on this case and such protests remains unchanged. We have no objection to peaceful, law-abiding protest …
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Francis Egan, Chief Executive Officer of the leading onshore shale gas operator Cuadrilla, said: “We note that the Committee on Climate Change report published today recognises that we will continue to be using significant quantities of natural gas in the UK out to 2050 and beyond in conjunction with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology …
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Comprehensive environmental data which includes hundreds of thousands of separate air quality readings taken continuously for more than a year has been published by shale gas exploration operator Cuadrilla today. The company, which operates the UK’s most advanced shale gas exploration site in Preston New Road (PNR), near Blackpool, Lancashire, has posted the data on …
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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 …
“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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