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A few years ago, a couple of recent graduates from the Colorado School of Mines working for a Denver oil and gas company took a good look at the underground rock formations north of Denver and wondered: If they had money, could they drill for and find crude oil in places others didn’t?
Three years later, the answer is yes.
Those two graduates, Matt Owens and Jesse Silva, are now part of Denver’s Extraction Oil & Gas LLC, a fast-growing energy company that in less than three years has zoomed…