UK’s Cuadrilla to begin shale gas fracking in NW England next week
October 05, 2018 | Company Operations, Fracking, North Sea & Western Europe, Shale oil & gas
London, UK | — UK shale gas pioneer Cuadrilla Resources is to begin hydraulic fracturing at the first of its two horizontal shale gas wells at its Preston New Road site in Northwest England “in the next week,” the company said Friday. Once the fracking starts, it will represent the first such activity in the UK since 2011. The UK is increasingly dependent on gas imports, with Cuadrilla and its peers saying shale gas can go some way to reducing that dependence. “The start of hydraulic …