“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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Cuadrilla expects to start hydraulically fracturing the shale rock around the first of its two horizontal shale gas exploration wells at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire in the next week. The hydraulic fracturing process at Preston New Road will take approximately three months to complete for both exploration wells. The fracturing of the …
Cuadrilla Balcombe Limited is pleased that Angus Energy Plc, the current operator of the Balcombe exploration site in West Sussex, has safely finished a seven day well test of the horizontal well there. The well, Balcombe-2z, flowed at 853 Bopd¹ equivalent and 1,587 Bopd equivalent during two separate test runs. Francis Egan, CEO of Cuadrilla, …
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Cuadrilla has launched a new function on its ePortal to enable the public to view records of daily seismic monitoring around its Preston New Road shale gas exploration site and the surrounding area in Lancashire. The new tool also documents incidents of naturally occurring seismicity across the NorthWest since late 2017 and this will be …
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Cuadrilla has successfully completed drilling the UK’s second horizontal shale gas well at its exploration site at Preston New Road in Lancashire. This second horizontal well, drilled through the Upper Bowland shale at an approximate depth of 2,100m below the surface, extends laterally for some 750 metres through the shale gas reservoir. The first horizontal …
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Cuadrilla is pleased to announce the start of initial surface construction works on its shale gas exploration site at Preston New Road, near Little Plumpton. Planning consent was granted in October 2016 and Lancashire County Council recently discharged the planning conditions and approved Cuadrilla’s associated management plans for the works. The surface site, which is …
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Following an intensive 14 month investigation by the Advertising Standards Authority, the charity Friends of the Earth (FoE) has agreed with the regulator that it made a series of false claims about fracking in a fundraising leaflet sent to thousands of homes in the UK entitled ‘Pat Saved Her Home From Fracking. You Can Save …
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Cuadrilla welcomes the decision by Secretary of State for Department for Communities and Local Government Sajid Javid to grant planning consent for its applications to drill, hydraulically fracture and test the flow of gas from up to four exploration wells at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire. Regarding a similar application for a proposed …
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Cuadrilla warmly welcomes the Chancellor’s announcement in today’s Autumn Statement that 10% of tax revenues from shale gas developments, up to a maximum of £10m per site, will be put into a Shale Wealth Fund which could deliver up to £1 billion of investment in local communities hosting shale gas developments over the next 25 …
Cuadrilla is pleased to announce it has been offered two new exploration licences, as part of the UK Government’s 14th Round for onshore oil and gas licences. The licences, each one approximately 100km² in area, and all located in Yorkshire, are Block SE95 in the South Cleveland Basin and Block SE40f in the Gainsborough Trough. …
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