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Those prices have dropped by more than half since last summer – and drillers in Colorado are responding with cuts. Anadarko, which drilled 24 million barrels of oil north of Denver last year, announced it would reduce its drill rigs by a third, from 14 drill rigs to nine. And it will curtail capital spending by about a half-billion dollars to about $1.8 billion in Colorado.
The cuts are less severe than other drillers here. And the company insists it has no plans to cut its Colorado workforce. In part, because Anadarko is a mineral rights owner for much of the oil it’s producing.
Noble, the state’s second largest driller, recently announced it would cut spending in the Weld County oil fields by about a billion dollars this year.
Here's how Anadarko's footprint in Colorado compares to its competitors:
