Preston, Lancashire Wednesday 23rd January, 2013. Francis Egan Chief Executive of Cuadrilla Resources' The British shale gas exploration and production company, at Mere Brow Village Hall, Preston on the occasion of a public relations event prior to a planning application. Caudrilla are applying for further approval to drill, fracture and flow test a well in Hesketh Bank in 2013, Cuadrilla who are exploring for gas in Lancashire, are to submit an application to Lancashire County Council to continue work at a temporary site at Becconsall where a 10,500 feet deep well was drilled in August 2012


Mr Egan joined Cuadrilla Resources as CEO in July 2012. Mr Egan has over 28 years of diverse international experience working in engineering and management roles in the upstream oil & gas industry. Prior to joining Cuadrilla, Mr Egan worked in Houston as President of Production for BHP Billiton Petroleum with management responsibility for BHP Billiton’s worldwide oil and gas production. Prior to that role he had filled a number of management roles within BHP Billiton Petroleum including periods managing their oil and gas businesses in the UK where he has worked in London and North Wales, in Pakistan where he was based in Islamabad and in Algeria where he worked in Algiers and at BHPB’s operations in the Sahara.


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