Cuadrilla in Talks With United Utilities for U.K. Water Supplies
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Cuadrilla Resources Ltd., a U.K. shale explorer, is in discussions with United Utilities Group Plc over water supplies for its sites in northern England.
The company is looking at a potential six new sites in the Bowland Basin, a Cuadrilla official said today by phone, asking not to be identified by name citing internal policy. Part of that search is to identify where the water would come from for its operations, which require about 50,000 barrels or 2.1 million gallons per hydraulically fractured well, he said.