Cuadrilla Resources’ drilling rig is due to arrive at its Anna’s Road site in Westby. The rig is set to take a few weeks to set up on the site and is expected to remain there for a few months. Once the well drilling is completed the rig will be dismantled and removed. As has …
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Cuadrilla Resources is being advised by a well-known St Annes figure. He is Steve Singleton who left his job as editor of the Lytham St Annes Express in June. Mr Singleton, 56, has joined communications consultancy PPS to take up a role as Fylde local community advisor for Cuadrilla. Cuadrilla currently has sites in Elswick, …
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Cuadrilla to undertake comprehensive seismic monitoring Cuadrilla Resources, the company exploring for natural gas in shale rock deep beneath the surface in Lancashire, has commenced work to install sensitive monitoring technology so that it can undertake comprehensive seismic monitoring. In line with the company’s commitment to best practice, Cuadrilla will adopt a number of early …
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Cuadrilla welcomes the important contribution from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society to the scientific debate around hydraulic fracturing. The report suggests that hydraulic fracturing can be done safely provided that best practice is consistently followed and the industry is well regulated. We agree with both of these statements and have always …
Cuadrilla announces the appointment of Francis Egan as Chief Executive Cuadrilla Resources, the British shale gas exploration and production business, has announced the appointment of Francis Egan as the company’s new Chief Executive. Egan, who will take up this post on 9 July, has been appointed to lead Cuadrilla through its next stage of development, …
Statement on the Geophysical Survey 14th June 2012 Cuadrilla has been listening to local people throughout the survey process since it started at the end of March. From the outset we have sought to minimise disturbance through establishing a strict and independently tested 50m safe distance to nearby properties designed to avoid any damage. The …
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I hope you’re finding these blogs interesting to read. We’re trying to give you an insight into our work in the area and we’d welcome your feedback. In this post, I wanted to report on three things: The progress of the Geophysical Survey The publication of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)’s scientific …
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Following an enquiry from the Blackpool Gazette about the Geophysical Survey, Cuadrilla provided this comment: “We apologise to anyone who has been surprised by the brief ‘thuds’ resulting from our geo-physical survey across Fylde, currently operating around Elswick, Singleton and surrounding areas. Before the survey started we posted tens of thousands of leaflets across the …
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Media Statement 16 April 2012 Cuadrilla Resources welcomes experts’ scientific review on seismic events Cuadrilla Resources today welcomed the publication by the Department of Energy & Climate Change of its scientific experts’ review of the seismic events which occurred in April and May 2011 in the Bowland Basin, Lancashire. The review team included experts …
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This week will see the start of our Geophysical Survey in the Fylde. The survey, which builds on a similar study carried out about 30 years ago in the area, will map the subsurface geology (the rock) greatly improving our knowledge of the area’s geology – and the knowledge of the British Geological Survey, who will received …
