OIL & GAS

Fraccing a-okay in the UK… for now

AJ LUCAS group and its partially-owned UK-based partner in the controversial shale gas fraccing operations in Lancashire, Cuadrilla Resources, have been given approve to frac the second of two wells at its Preston New Road.

 Preston New Road will host the UK's first fracced shale gas wells.

Preston New Road will host the UK's first fracced shale gas wells.

      It gained approval for the first well, drilled off the same wellbore, in July.   The company expects to move into fraccing and testing within weeks with the testing phase expected to take...

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