Privately owned Cuadrilla has drilled what it says is the UK’s second horizontal shale-gas well on its prospect at Preston New Road, Lancashire, UK.
The well penetrated the Carboniferous Upper Bowland shale at about 2,100 m with a 750-m lateral.
Cuadrilla drilled its first horizontal well in April. That well penetrated the Lower Bowland shale at deeper than 2,300 m and extended laterally about 800 m (OGJ Online, Apr. 3, 2018).
The company, based in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, awaits government approval to hydraulically fracture the wells.
It plans initial flow tests of about 6 months for both wells.
Cuadrilla said it based locations on data from a vertical pilot well it drilled to deeper than 2,700 m last year to test the target shales.
