"These well sites, they were built to keep things in.
Gas is seldom stored, even temporarily, at well sites.
(Smaller-diameter tanks are used at well sites).
Out in the field, Hope locates three possible well sites in roughly 30 minutes.
Of the 48 well sites Canning chose, 37 would commandeer Aboriginal water supplies.
"It was a 5percentt factor" in the decision to buy, said Mr. Riley, a geological consultant for well sites.
Starting around 2000, BP began introducing methane-catching techniques at 2,300 well sites in New Mexico.
To really zero in on well sites, they drill a test well, which produces cuttings of the various strata.
Simply by drilling a single well, they could then count as part of their reserves nearby future well sites.
Well sites in many parts of the southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem are so closely spaced that, with roads, gas pipelines and compressor stations, the development is continuous.
It didn't have an obvious water source, so Meadows recommended a guy who sent a man to search for well sites with a forked stick.
