Cuadrilla Resources

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Cuadrilla Resources is a UK energy company based in Staffordshire. Set up in 2007 and backed by British Gas, it has been described as "the pioneer of fracking in the UK". In July 2013 it announced it was applying for planning consent to start fracking on sites in the Fylde area of Lancashire. [1]

Activities

Cuadrilla is a UK-registered company privately owned by its management team and two investors, the Australian drilling and engineering company AJ Lucas and Riverstone LLC.

It has "some 70 staff in the UK both directly employed and through contractors, mostly based at the well sites. The main contracting partner in the UK is PR Marriott Drilling Ltd based in Chesterfield, which has over 60 years of drilling experience in Britain".

People

Management team

Board

Lobbying firms

Website

Website: http://www.cuadrillaresources.com/

Resources

Notes

  1. *Terry McCallister, Cuadrilla announces major fracking expansion in UK, The Guardian, Friday 5 July 2013 18.14 BST
  2. Tom Bawden, Cuadrilla PR man admits George Osborne's shale gas revolution won’t cut energy bills, 20 August 2013
  3. APPC Register Entry for 1 Dec 2011 to 29 Feb 2012