STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — — Shell Oil resumes its effort this week to obtain a Routt County permit to drill the Dawson Creek oil well south of Yampa Valley Regional Airport.
The proposed well pad would be located between four and five miles southeast of Hayden on the east side of Routt County Road 37. The Colorado State Land Board manages the surface land.
The Routt County Board of Commissioners tabled Shell’s permit application in September 2011, though it had received a recommendation of approval from the county Planning Commission.
The current application from Shell indicates that no hydraulic fracturing or stimulation of the well production zone is planned.
Shell’s willingness to drill a groundwater quality monitoring well at Dawson Creek in spite of the fact that they don’t plan to use hydraulic fracturing contrasts with Quicksilver Resource’s stance on its own Camilletti oil well near Milner.
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