Industry asserts Thompson Divide has huge shale gas potential

摘要

The oil and gas industry says it has proof that west-central Colorado's pristine ThompsonrnDivide region contains potentially huge deposits of shale gas and should not be closed off torndevelopment.rnThe West Slope Colorado Oil & Gas Association this week pointed to recent results from arn"highly prolific" natural gas exploratory well on private land less than a mile from the boundariesrnof the 221,000-acre Thompson Divide that has produced millions of cubic feet of gas sincernstarting so-called flowback operations at the site just 21 days ago.