Surface Mancos Shale probably produces more “clean” Elpedro “soil” than “oil” on the Chama Platform.
Numerous faults and fractures help recharge renewable drinking water in the Mancos and Morrison Formations.
Such faults and fractures can make exploration for traces of any remaining oil & gas unpredictable and hazardous.
Injecting toxic, carcinogenic, and radioactive chemicals directly above drinking water supplies is EPA-banned.
Neutron well logging into the Dakota Sandstone uses epithermal neutons that can turn 238-Uranium into 239-Plutonium, the most carcinogenic substance known.
The neutron-logging target remaining, here, is the Dakota.