AURORA - It is becoming one of the most controversial issues in Colorado and very soon, it could be coming to a neighborhood near you. It's called fracking and it's a popular drilling method used to unearth natural gas and oil. Fracking involves injecting fluid, sometimes consisting of a mixture of chemicals and water, thousands of feet underground to expand existing cracks in rocks.
There are more than 45,000 oil and gas wells in Colorado. Most of them are in the mountains and in more rural areas. In a populated area like Aurora, drilling wells could be popping up in the Cross Creek Community soon.
The Houston-based petroleum company Anandarko leased the mineral rights to most of the land around the subdivision and has expressed interest in fracking for oil.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
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otisptoadwater wrote: AURORA - It is becoming one of the most controversial issues in Colorado and very soon, it could be coming to a neighborhood near you. It's called fracking and it's a popular drilling method used to unearth natural gas and oil. Fracking involves injecting fluid, sometimes consisting of a mixture of chemicals and water, thousands of feet underground to expand existing cracks in rocks.
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In 1976 I
was living with my sister in Denver and working on a oil rig somewhere in the boonies. As I recall it was a rig on skids on a golf course. We drilled a well, cased and caped it, then skidded it over a ways and did it again. Could have been Aurora, my brother in law grew up in Denver and I did not go anywhere with out detailed directions.
