Gas companies on

IGNACIO – Colorado Highway 172 cuts through a typical southwestern landscape of gentle hills and pi

For years, the San Juan Basin has been a sort of Old Faithful for the gas industry. It produces almost as much gas every year as the next five biggest fields combined, according to the federal Energy Information Administration. La Plata County alone produces more than 2 percent of the natural gas used in the United States.

Americans use the gas found here when they turn on a light, grill steaks on the barbecue, ride a city bus, turn up the heat in the winter or eat food grown with fertilizer.

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