Cuadrilla Resources

Our response to the Government's Written Ministerial Statement today can be found here:
https://cuadrillaresources.uk/response-to -written-minister…/
Please use the link 👆🏻 not the preview 👇🏻

Lovely high quality shale gas flowing back to surface at Preston New Road. Feel free to warm hands here - it’s freezing tonight 🖐🏻🤚🏻🔥

Latest update from our well testing activities here.
“Compositional analyses of the samples show that the natural gas locked up in the Upper Bowland Shale deep beneath the PNR site is the highest quality yet...

Preston New Road update: the Environment Agency has approved the use of nitrogen during well testing at Preston New Road

ICYMI here’s the link again to our update from a couple of weeks ago... you’ll see clear information about what we are doing at the moment and the definitive quote at the end which says “We’re committed to exploring for shale gas to establish a domestic energy supply the UK really needs.”

Afternoon everyone, here's a brief update from our CEO, Francis Egan.

**Update - the original story has been removed, but we have left the information for clarification**
We can all agree that inaccurate reporting like this isn't helpful when people are looking for information:
“In a statement, Cuadrilla said no more fracking would take place before its licence ends on November 30 and that there were no plans to extend it.”
... This isn’t true. As per our earlier update, we have one condition of our planning permission which expires in November and means we cannot fracture or drill, but Preston New Road can remain a working site until April 2023. We announced our intention to apply for an extension in August. The licence is something entirely different.
“It seems attention will now turn to a second Lancashire site at Lower Bowland.”
The Lower Bowland shale refers to an area within the rock formation. Our first well at Preston New Road was drilled into the Lower Bowland and the second (most recent one) was drilled into the rocks above known as the Upper Bowland. There is no ‘second site’.
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Morning, lots of people asking for clarification on our update yesterday. Planning permission at Preston New Road includes a condition that means we cannot fracture or drill beyond November but we can remain on site, carrying out other operations, until April 2023. We announced in August that we would seek an extension to this particular condition. This has not been submitted yet.

The latest information about activity at our shale gas exploration site in Preston New Road, Lancashire, has been been updated this morning...

You can find an update here on rainwater removal from our site in Preston New Road today following a huge amount of rain in the last few days...

BBC Radio Four's series The Corrections was an interesting listen this morning, focusing on the story which developed around our work in Balcombe some years ago and chatting to journalists and others. If you want to catch it it's on @BBCSounds here...

We are aware of an ongoing protest outside our shale gas exploration site in Preston New Road, Lancashire. This is not impacting on operations. We have no objection to peaceful, law abiding protest whilst recognising that our neighbours, motorists using the busy road and our staff and contractors should also be able to go about their business without disruption, inconvenience or intimidation too. You can find our full statement here 👇

Morning, we're committed to providing general updates about ongoing activity at Preston New Road, near Blackpool. This week we will be working on programmed well operations and you may notice equipment running on the site. We are not conducting hydraulic fracturing while the technical review with regulators is underway.

Hello everyone,
Just a quick update for all of our followers. We are still working with regulators since the seismic event measuring 2.9ML was recorded. Currently we are not undertaking hydraulic fracturing at our Preston New Road site.
Later today we will be attending a community liaison group meeting (CLG). This isn't an open door event and we do not have control over attendees. However if you have any questions for us please post them below and we'll reply on here as soon as possible.

Here is an update on activity that has been ongoing this week since seismicity measuring 2.9ML on the Richter scale was detected on Monday.
The event was felt by many people and we are sorry for any concern this has caused.
Please read our full update here for more 👇

Good morning. Today we'll be doing some routine surface work at our exploration site in Preston New Road. If you’re nearby you may hear the pumps running but we are not hydraulic fracturing.

Just to let you know there will be some routine maintenance work happening at our exploration site in Preston New Road throughout today. If you’re nearby you may hear the pumps running but we are not hydraulic fracturing.

An update on micro seismicity at Preston New Road can be found here. This table at the bottom of the page is updated as events are detected.