Longmont City Council will decide Tuesday whether to allow an oil and gas company to conduct a seismic survey of city-owned land in Weld County.
In December, city staff informed the council that TOP Operating — long the only oil and gas company operating in Longmont — had partnered with Cub Creek Energy LLC, which had been operating near Mead.
Dale Rademacher, Longmont general manager of public works and natural resources, said then that Cub Creek wished to work with the city to do a seismic survey on parts of the Wattenberg Gas Field east of Longmont.
The seismic survey would give both Cub Creek and the city a picture of oil and gas underneath city-owned land in Weld County. Doing so would allow Cub Creek and TOP to abide by the city’s master contract that was negotiated to forestall future disagreements about where oil and gas developers could drill or hydraulically fracture in Longmont.
Cub Creek would pay the city $7.50 per acre to conduct the survey for a total of $17,122. Cub Creek also wants to survey the oil and gas around and underneath Union Reservoir, which is owned by the Union Reservoir Company.
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