Hydraulic Fracturing Water Use Per Well Has Quadrupled Over The Last Decade, Half of Wells Now Consume Over 17.2 Million Gallons

Thanks to our friends at Open FF who have created a sanitized data set of the hydraulic fracturing disclosure data submitted to FracFocus, here are the wellbore measured depths (fetched from directional wellbore data at the ECMC) and quantity of water used to hydraulically fracture every well in Colorado since 2015.

For those that prefer, here are the same images in a static gallery:

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