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The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission will conduct meetings in Glenwood Springs and Paonia in early November to hear from regions with oil and gas development. ....
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS About a decade ago, Routt County was a popular place to pursue building an oil well. Commissioner Tim Corrigan recalls it was estimated there were as much as a half billion barrels of oil in the county just waiting to be recovered. “My guess is that number was probably exaggerated, but at the time, the developers were really pretty excited about Routt County” Corrigan said. There was a frenzy of activity with a number of larger operations leasing a significant amount of land, and the county was receiving a lot of applications for drilling permits, Corrigan said. Many of the wells that were drilled turned out not to be that profitable, mainly because of the geology of the area. Rather than long lines of shale that can be drilled horizontally, in Routt County, these layers are often fractured, making drilling less efficient. ....