CPX well pad application approved

Garfield County has approved a permit for as many as 32 directional natural gas wells on a 5.45-acre property roughly 12 miles south of Rifle off U.S. Forest Service Road 824. CPX Piceance Holdings, LLC’s Tepee Park Ranch (TPR) well pad 36A is located on a private parcel of land with an existing oil and gas infrastructure. The existing well pad was constructed in 2008, and a limited impact review of the proposal noted that CPX conducted an alternative location analysis of four other sites for the project and determined that developing 36A would pose the least detrimental impacts to