Originally Posted by jaguartx
Deep mulitmillion dollar wells screwing up my hunting country.

EdM, why are they so close together? Why cant they directional drill many wells off one location?

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They can drill a great number of wells from one location. I work in Western Wyoming but the idea is pretty much the same everywhere. Drill directionally with a lot of different trajectories from the same location to minimize what they call “the footprint”on the landscape. The average pad in this part of the world has sixteen wells on it. I’ve worked on pads on the western slope of Colorado that had sixty four wells on the same pad.