AURORA | Arapahoe County has conditionally approved an oil-and-gas-drilling project just east of Aurora calling for 20 wells on a gravel pad on State Land Board property.
The tentative OK from commissioners goes to Crestone Peak Resources Operating LLC, doing business as Civitas, to build and operate the State Wetterhorn-Handies oil and gas facility.
The project calls for 20 wells to be drilled on a gravel pad measuring about 350 feet by 1,500 feet, according to a statement from the county. The site will sit on State Land Board property roughly two miles south of East Quincy Avenue and nearly three miles west of Tom Bay Road…