Archive for May, 2009

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Week-End Energy Updates
From Around the State

>> Cooling Job Markets Force Workers to Adjust
>> Coal Companies Look to Water Technology
>> Double Eagle Merging with Petrosearch
>> BP Petroleum Receives Safety Award
>> EnCana Names New Wind River Operations Leader

29May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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County Officials Get to Know Wyoming’s Booming Industry

Rocky Mountain Power officials said that once a wind resource is developed, it’s likely the area will produce wind megawatts far beyond the 25-year average capital return on investment.

28May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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House Bill Proposes Big Changes to Drilling
on Public Lands

Still in the “discussion draft” phase, the bill would raise the royalties companies pay to drill on federal lands from 12.5 to 18.75 percent and shorten lease terms from 10 to five years. A spokesman for the energy industry says that, if enacted, the proposal will hurt independent, smaller oil and gas operators the most.

27May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Republicans Say Alternative Energy, Alone, Won’t Meet
U.S. Energy Needs

In the party’s weekly radio and Internet, Senator Barrasso said Republicans support a more comprehensive energy plan that would increase funding for energy research, develop U.S. oil and gas resources and promote clean coal and nuclear power.

25May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA Administrator Jackson Wraps Up Two Day Tour of Wyoming Energy Production Sites

“Wyoming is a place where economic possibilities, environmental and human health concerns, and the pursuit of energy independence all come together,” Administrator Jackson said. “As a home of wind, coal, and natural gas, Wyoming is at the heart of America’s energy future.”

22May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Governor Outlines Wind Concerns
to Legislative Task Force

The “gold rush” of wind energy development currently underway in the state presents great possibilities but also problems for the state, Governor Dave Freudenthal said this week in a detailed letter to Sen. Jim Anderson and the members of the Wyoming Legislature’s Wind Energy Task Force.

20May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Peabody Energy Looking to the Wind in Wyoming?

The world’s largest private sector coal producer is looking at wind to reduce its energy costs. “We are evaluating whether or not one or several wind turbines may be helpful in supplementing the power supply,” said Vic Svec, a Peabody vice president.

17May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Energy Companies Seek to Overturn
Pinedale Ruling

District Judge Norman E. Young of Lander ruled last year that Shell Rocky Mountain Production and several other companies are bound to share 5 percent of their profits from certain wells in the Pinedale Anticline.

16May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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White Energy, Peabody Partnering
on Powder River Basin Plant

The new plant will boost the heat value of coal mined in the Powder River Basin and process coal supplied from one of Peabody’s several mines in the basin.

15May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Lusk Getting New Wind Turbine
Maintenance Facility

The big uptick in turbine installations throughout the country has greatly amplified the demand for preventive and unscheduled maintenance. Already, 60% of the active wind turbines are behind on their scheduled maintenance.

14May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Landowners Say “Slow Down” on Wind Energy

Dozens of rural landowners want to “curb enthusiasm for” and ultimately kill plans to plant wind turbines and string a green-field power line segment across the northern Laramie Range in Converse and Albany counties

12May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New State Wind Panel Forms

Wyoming’s new Task Force on Wind Energy will get organized May 20 at its first meeting beginning at 1 p.m. in Room 302 in the State Capitol. The committee, which includes three senators, four representatives, a county commissioner and industry person, will adopt a plan of action for the one-year study.

11May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Cleaner Coal Research on Tap for Cheyenne

The cooperative project between the University and GE Energy will be located in the Cheyenne Business Parkway on the eastern side of the city off of Interstate 80. When in operation, the facility will research technologies that turn coal into natural gas to produce electricity with limited greenhouse gas emissions.

10May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Anardarko and Units Reach Settlement Over Spills

A consent degree filed in Cheyenne stipulates that Anadarko and its Howell units will pay the $1.05 million fine, and upgrade and implement appropriate spill-prevention plans and develop and implement facility response plans.

8May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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