DE BEQUE, Colo.—Water and gas have started flowing from a non-producing well in western Colorado, and state investigators want to know if a drilling procedure a half-mile away is to blame.
The Daily Sentinel reports that the well is in De Beque in Mesa County ( ). A spokesman for the state Department of Natural Resources tells the paper that state oil and gas investigators are trying to determine whether hydraulic fracturing of a nearby horizontal well outside De Beque is responsible.
The spokesman says no surface waters have been affected and that fluid at the surface has been captured in a trench and contained in a pit.
The well was drilled in 1981. It hasn’t produced for many years
The Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission is investigating.
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Information from: The Daily Sentinel,
