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At their regularly scheduled April 2, 2025 meeting, the ECMC Commissioners heard an update from Director Julie Murphy about the data integrity/falsification regarding spill sample laboratory analyses by Eagle Environmental Consulting and Tasman, Inc.
In the light of recent speculation that Civitas is considering divestment of its Denver-Julesburg Basin assets to focus on the Permian basin in Texas, it’s a good time to review the major players in the basin. Let’s take a look at current assets, recent acquisitions, who’s in a position to acquire these assets, and how the acquisition might impact future development in the Basin.
Continue reading “Who’s Going to Buy the Civitas Assets?”In Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV of this series, we showed that each hydraulic fractured well permanently poisons millions of gallons of water.
Now that Occidental is fracking the wells at Mae J and Papa Jo / Shumaker, there’s a renewed interest in the amount of water used by hydraulic fracturing, so let’s take a look at the 12 wells drilled at the Cosslett pad by Crestone Peak Resources.
By using more water than any other pad we’ve examined in this series, it’s once again worth saying out loud:
Crestone Peak Resources has used one hundred seventy-five million, five hundred thirty-four thousand, six hundred and seventy-four gallons of water to frack the twelve wells at Cosslett.
A total of 175,534,674 gallons of water, with a median of 16,252,811 gallons per well. It sounds like we’ll expect Occidental to use a similar quantity of water to drill the 12 wells at Mae J.
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