Colorado’s oil and gas forecast keeps getting better. Denver was ranked the third oil and gas city in the world. Northern Colorado has emerged as one of the nation’s premiere centers for energy development according to the Northern Colorado Business Report. The leading voices in oil and gas will come together for the Energy Summit on July 16 at The… Read more »
Tag: Oil and Gas
Rigzone Ranks Denver #3 Oil & Gas City in World
Earning exceptionally high marks for unconventional oil and gas activity, number of potential jobs and quality of personal life, Denver earned slot three on Rigzone’s Ranking of the Top 10 Oil and Gas Cities in the World. Denver was the only U.S. city to make the list. Dubai, United Arab Emirates earned the top slot… Read more »
Fracking and Water Usage
By Rick Behning, PE One of the concerns related to the fracking process is water usage. Kenneth Carlson, co-director of the Colorado Energy-Water Consortium, was interviewed for a recent Greeley Tribune article. The article explains that 0.1 percent of water diverted for beneficial use will be used for fracking over the 5 year span from… Read more »
What to Do with Fracking’s Flowback Water?
By Baseline Water/Wastewater Engineering Approximately one million gallons of “flowback” water return to the surface, and is typically hauled to a disposal site where it is injected thousands of feet into the ground, a process environmentalists and some residents of oil fields worry may contaminate ground water. Many agree that this practice is not sustainable… Read more »
How to Invest for Potential Fracking Regulation
The following article was published on www.bakkenoil.org on January 23, 2012. Michael Filloon of Seeking Alpha has a five-part article series on investing for potential of EPA regulation of fracking as a result of public concerns about water usage and contamination. Below is a synopsis of his excellent analysis, but for an in-depth assessment of how… Read more »
Weld County Oil and Gas Boom on Horizon
By Rick Behning, PE Billions of dollars have been earmarked to be spent in the Niobrara Shale in Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming. According to an article published January 4 in The Coloradoan: “The Niobrara shale spreads across northeast Colorado, but it’s only about 400 feet thick and thousands of feet underground. Because the shale is so thin,… Read more »
