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Students spend the summer with Cuadrilla

Applications for 2012 have now closed. Cuadrilla’s developing operations in Lancashire have led to the company taking on two students to work in its Geology department. The students, from Royal Holloway and Keele University, have worked under the watchful eye of Cuadrilla’s Director of Exploration, Peter Turner. Analysing and interpreting data from the company’s operations …

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Lancashire Operations Status Report, 28 June 2011

Cuadrilla Resources has voluntarily decided to postpone its hydraulic fracturing operations at Preese Hall 1 following small tremors located close to the site on 1 April and 27 May 2011. This decision has the agreement of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Cuadrilla is producing a detailed geo-mechanical report for DECC. The report …

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Statement on May 27th earthquake in Poulton area.

Cuadrilla Resources, the shale gas exploration company, has postponed fracing operations on its site at Weeton, near Poulton in Lancashire. The company decided on this action whilst it interprets seismic information received from monitoring information located around the site, following a small seismic event in the Blackpool area recorded at approximately 0.48 am on Friday, …

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