The agency that regulates oil and gas in Colorado has a new name and new duties, which include building a regulatory framework for the growing geothermal energy sector that is a priority for Gov. J…
Transitional Energy is watching as the ECMC works through rules for the new programs. Ostrum said one of the questions is how to treat a well that produces oil and gas along with geothermal energy. And she said although the skills and techniques for oil and gas and geothermal might overlap, geothermal regulations can’t just be cut and pasted from oil and gas rules.
“We were supportive of the proposed change during the legislative session and remain so with the caveat, and it’s a significant caveat, that the commission not get distracted from its priority of processing oil and natural gas permits,” Dan Haley, president and CEO of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, a trade group, said in an email.
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