Resources

(Updated November 14,2024):

• The second day of deliberations will be on November 15th at 9am. Agenda & Zoom info here.
• Read the Talking Points document

• Colorado Oil & Gas 101
• Watch the recording of the April 16, 2024, Erie Board of Trustees Draco Study Session (begins at the 54-minute mark)
• Read through the Erie Protectors transcript of the April 16, 2024, Erie Board of Trustees Draco Study Session
• Google Drive with additional information and social media graphics to share
• Maps can be found at Erie Protectors and include:
  • Map of the planned area for the Draco Pad drilling within Flatiron Meadows
    • Each well is labeled with its name and status, its maximum wellbore depth, and its spud date, i.e. when the well was drilled. The locations with the red dashed circles are of the most concern because they contain producing or shut-in wells. Plugged and abandoned (PA) wells are also at some risk due to how PA wells are plugged. Wells that were plugged more than 20 years ago are of greater concern as well due to advancements since then in plugging wells.
  • Map of the planned area for the Draco Pad drilling
    • Shows the 26 wellbores and the existing 87 wells in its path
    • Of note, but not within Flatiron Meadows are the 3 orphaned wells .5 miles away. These have not been shut in or plugged & abandoned because the operator has gone bankrupt. These lines also conveniently (sarcasm) avoid producing wells.
  • Map of existing wells in the path of Draco 
• Diagram of what is done in a modern-day (within the last 20 years) plugged well
• Copy of Location Assessment form 2A
  • Of note in their application from Erie Protectors site:
    • Extraction plans to spend 9 weeks constructing the location, 18 weeks drilling the wells, and 23 weeks completing the wells for Draco, for a total of 50 weeks of pre-production activities, assuming two concurrent electric drilling rigs will be used. The wells will be in production for 20 years.
    • The operator estimates 158,125 diesel vehicle miles will be driven before the wells are put into production to deliver sand, pipe, and other materials to the site.
    • The project will use 3.27 million pounds of proppant/sand during completion activities.
    • They plan to use 12,885,000 barrels of water to frack the 26 wells at Draco, for a total of 541 million gallons of water and an average of 20.8 million gallons per well.
    • They will not be recycling produced water because “the infrastructure necessary to reuse or recycle water does not exist in this area.”
    • Extraction plans to plug and abandon 22 wells at 18 locations, as well as remove 24 oil tanks and 13 produced water tanks.
• Erie Protectors
• 350Colorado