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AJ Lucas-backed Cuadrilla completes UK's first horizontal shale well

THE AJ Lucas-backed Cuadrilla Resources has completed the UK's controversial first horizontal shale gas well at Preston New Road in Lancashire and will soon apply for regulator permission to frac the well later this year.

Helen Clark

Hopes for three or more wells to supply Lancashire gas grid by next year

AJL owns 47.4% of Cuadrilla and has a 23.75% working interest in the Bowland Basin tenements. The well was drilled through the Lower Bowland Shale at 2700 metres and extends laterally for 800m through...

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