Cuadrilla is a privately-owned unconventional gas exploration company based in Staffordshire, UK. Estimates of its shale gas resource in the North West of England and, by extension, the total shale gas estimates in the region may have to be increased significantly upwards after recent remarks by one of its team. A geologist with the company said there may be 330 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas in place in its licence area, 50% more than previous estimates.
Speaking at the two-day Shale UK conference in London in March 2014, Huw Clarke, a geologist with the company said that their original estimate was 200 tcf but that was based on data from just one well, which had been ratified by the British Geological Survey (BGS). Since then, two extra wells had been drilled and he believed there was closer to 330 tcf in place just within Cuadrilla's licence area alone.
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