Oil and gas field · Garfield County, Colorado, United States

Parachute

Parachute is an oil and gas field in Garfield County, Colorado, United States, with 22,727 boe/day of production in 2025, operated by TEP Rocky Mountain LLC (81.4%) and QB Energy Operating LLC (18.6%).

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	PARACHUTE	Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC) · Free reuse · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	Garfield County	Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC) · Free reuse · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating	Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC) · Free reuse · checked 24 Oct 2026
Commodities	gas	Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC) · Free reuse · checked 24 Oct 2026
Discovered	1985	EIA Oil and Gas Field Code Master List · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Onshore or offshore	Onshore	Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC) · Free reuse · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	TEP Rocky Mountain LLC (81.4%, of the field's production)	Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC) · Free reuse · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	QB Energy Operating LLC (18.6%, of the field's production)	Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC) · Free reuse · checked 24 Oct 2026
Production	22,727 boe/day (224 barrels of oil a day, 135,016 Mcf of gas a day, in 2025)	Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC) · Free reuse · checked 24 Oct 2026
Production	45,143 boe/day (270,858 Mcf of gas a day, no. 32 of EIA's top 100 US gas fields, gas only, oil not ranked, in 2013)	EIA Top 100 U.S. Oil and Gas Fields · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	39.4704, -107.9920	Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC) · Free reuse · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares by production

Parachute is the 10th-largest of 32 oil and gas fields in Colorado and the 98th-largest of 319 in the United States by production, with 22,727 boe/day in 2025. Ranks and totals cover the oil and gas fields in our data that report their production, not every one in existence.

Within	Rank
Colorado	10th of 32
United States	98th of 319

Timeline

Dated facts about this oil and gas field from its sources, oldest first.

1985Discovered
2025TEP Rocky Mountain LLC (81.4%) and QB Energy Operating LLC (18.6%) on record as operators

Nearby

Within 50 km of this oil and gas field: 9 water rights and 1 power plant, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 4, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
NOSR E Parachute CR Res water right 3904013 24446.00000	Water right	—	—	12 km
Rifle Generating Station	Power plant	84 MW	Closed	23 km
Rifle Gap Reservoir water right 3903508 37503.36899	Water right	—	—	27 km
Vega Reservoir water right 7203844 37486.00000	Water right	—	—	31 km

Operators and place

TEP Rocky Mountain LLCOperator · 81.4%
QB Energy Operating LLCOperator · 18.6%
Oil and gas fields in Colorado, United States32
Oil and gas fields in the United States676
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Other oil and gas fields in Colorado

Wattenberg882,693 boe/day in 2025
San Juan Basin Gas Area468,019 boe/day in 2013
DJ Horizontal Niobrara110,716 boe/day in 2025
Ignacio Blanco97,199 boe/day in 2025
Grand Valley70,415 boe/day in 2025
Raton Basin Gas Area50,453 boe/day in 2013
Rulison34,252 boe/day in 2025
Yellowjacket28,484 boe/day in 2013

All 32 oil and gas fields in Colorado, United States

Data on this page

BSEE Data Center. BSEE Data Center, Public domain.
Colorado DWR REST API. Colorado DWR REST API, CDSS Terms of Use.
Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC). Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC), Free reuse.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Feb 2016). EIA Oil and Gas Field Code Master List, Public domain.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Apr 2015). EIA Top 100 U.S. Oil and Gas Fields, Public domain.