🎵 Your Oil & Gas Wrapped 2025 just dropped 🎵

The Top Stats This Year:
🛢️ 651 new wells drilled
💧 10.5 billion gallons of water consumed
⛰️ 3.7 million tons of sand pumped underground
🚨 2,110 spills reported, a new record :(

➡️ Visit ecocarto.com/wrapped to see the detailed stats.

In an updated July 31st Form 27 filing with the ECMC, Noble Energy Inc disclosed that 33,104 cubic yards of contaminated soil and 322,530 BBLs (or about 13.5 million gallons) of contaminated water has been removed from the Bishop A07 pad in Galeton, CO.

In today's ECMC Commissioner meeting, additional details were provided about the data integrity issues with spill laboratory analyses first revealed in December 2024, including the most egregious examples of falsification, and 5 additional affected Chevron locations.

The chemical disclosures for the 14 wells at Cosslett East are now available at the ECMC, showing 4 never-before disclosed chemicals by Crestone Peak Resources in any previous FracFocus submission, including cancer-causing carcinogens. For details, visit our website (link in bio).

The report released this week by PSR Colorado- Physicians for Social Responsibility includes 14 affected wells at the Cosslett East pad in Erie.

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An alarming spill notification this week at the SRC Cannon pad east of Berthoud, where "approximately 255 BBL of produced water and frac fluid released from Tank #1 when the SRC Cannon 24-16 CHZ wellhead was impacted by nearby frac operations" at the Koolstra wells 3,000 ft to the southwest.

We now know that 3.7 million gallons of contaminated water and 720 dump truck loads of contaminated soil have been removed from the spill site at Bishop A07-01 Pad. Greg Duranleau, ECMC Deputy Director of Operations gave an update at the ECMC Commissioner meeting on April 30, 2025.

Contaminated groundwater was discovered as a part of this historical spill discovered on April 24, 2025 at the Jillson 5 wellhead in Frederick.

From the Form 19 Report, "During P&A operations on 4/24/2025 at 12:30pm, KPK encountered a historical release at the wellhead of the Jillson 5 ...

Two new spills reported during the decommissioning activities at the Baker C Unit-61N68W location in Broomfield just southwest of I-25 and CR 6, requiring the excavation and disposal of at least 10 cubic yards of contaminated soil.

Today, the ECMC released an updated map of falsified analytical data reports made by Eagle Environmental Consulting and Tasman, Inc. Visit our web site for a summary of Director Murphy's update and an updated map of locations impacted by this data falsification.

Plug & Abandon Notification - Armstead Gas Unit 4-31: This oil well located just south of Erie's Waste Water treatment plant off Hwy 52 and County Line Road is scheduled to be plugged and abandoned starting April 7, 2025.

It's always a good day to file a complaint with the ECMC. Visit our web site for a comprehensive guide on how to file a complaint for noise, odor, traffic, or in this case, dust from a nearby oil & gas operation.

he Draco Pad hearing is tentatively back at the ECMC on March 13th, 2025. Visit our web site for an analysis of Extraction's prehearing statement regarding the proposed Alternative Location 4.

Start of Plugging Operations at Alcorn 32-10: This directional well southwest of Lookout Road and N 109th St. just outside of Erie will be plugged and abandoned starting February 20, 2025, expected to last 9 days. A P&A notification for the nearby Alcorn 1 well was sent on February 3.

Another Notice of Alleged Violation (NOAV) for KP Kauffman at the Sack 8-11 facility in Thornton, for failing to file a spill report within 90 days of a spill discovery. The NOAV was issued 529 days after the spill was discovered, almost a year and a half later.

Oskarson 23-33 Spill:Unknown quantities of oil, condensate, and produced water were spilled "while conducting facility decommissioning activities at Crestone’s Oskarson 23-33 location [just north of Hwy 52 and CR5].

Woolley F Unit 1 Spill: Unknown spilled quantities of oil, condensate, and produced water were reported for an historical spill at the Woolley F Unit 1 well, just northeast of County Line Road and CR 10 1/2.