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BLM approves Chevron’s Expansion Plan in Western Wyoming

The BLM said it authorized Chevron to expand Table Rock Field 40 miles east of Rock Springs. The plan calls for 33 shallow new oil wells and 20 deep gas wells, and as many as 35 water injection wells. Chevron also got approval to convert 18 existing wells to water injection wells.

26Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feds Study Views, Best Locations For Wyoming Wind Farms and Power Lines

The view impact study is one of several studies under way by the BLM. Others will examine the best place, from a land-use perspective, to locate wind farms.

20Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Governor Mead Wants State Energy Policy Released by 2012

Mead said the energy plan would essentially say, “Here’s what our resources are, here’s where we think new technologies could come.” The need is critical because Wyoming leads the nation in exporting energy.

7Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Renewable Projects Under Pressure From Feds and Environmental Groups

The BLM is removing some of the cheapest and best land for renewable energy projects from the market. What’s more, it drives up the price of the more scarce, available land, making the already thin margins on renewable energy projects even more precarious.

13Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Approves Energy Development in Wyoming’s Fortification Creek

The BLM said it denied a landowner group’s protest and would stick to a final plan released in March that will eventually allow energy development in the area, something that hasn’t happened since 2005, said Thomas Bills, environmental coordinator with the agency.

11Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Plans Overhaul to Oil and Gas
Royalty Process

The proposed change would streamline the current royalty process from a complicated analyses to calculating royalties using a market price based on the geography of a region. “These changes could dramatically improve compliance and reduce administrative costs for industry and the government.”

25May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar Report Tries to Refute GOP Claim Administration is Blocking Oil and Gas Drilling

Overall, 45 percent of all onshore leases and 57 percent of all leased acres are idle. “The simple truth is approval rates for drilling permits are up, and industry lays idle hands on over 21 million acres of public lands,” said Matt Garrington of the Checks & Balances Project in Denver.

1Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Comments Sought on Extra-High-Voltage
Power Line

The 600-kilovolt, direct-current line would transmit up to 3,000 megawatts per year of electricity from planned renewable energy facilities in south-central Wyoming to southern Nevada to help meet anticipated increased demand in the Southwest.

4Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Numbers Point to Natural Gas Pickup

In Wyoming, the number of drilling permits issued through November of this year is up by about 300. There’s still a pretty bright future for natural gas, not only in southwest Wyoming, but for the entire state,” said Bruce Hinchey, president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming. “We may have weathered this little bottom.”

29Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Seeks to Clarify Revised Oil & Gas
Leasing Process

While not required to hold a public hearing on the changes to the lease sale form, state officials hope the meeting will clarify ambiguity regarding bonding, royalties, valuation and other matters concerning the first revision of the state oil and gas lease form in 20 years.

30Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Oil & Gas Leasing Backlog Starts to Loosen

The 2-year-old delay on issuing federal leases in Wyoming began breaking loose a few days ago as the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced it finally will issue 145 leases sold in June 2008.

10Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM lease Sale Generates $3.6 Million for 75 Parcels Throughout the State

The sale attracted attracted bids on more than 77,700 acres in 75 parcels located throughout the state. A total of 76 parcels with more than 79,000 acres were offered for sale.

5Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Value Of Views: BLM Conducts ‘Visual Inventory’ to Help Guide Wind Development

To prepare for a planning review of the resource management plans that guide wind energy and other development on public lands, the Bureau of Land Management’s Rock Springs and Rawlins field offices are hosting a series of open houses to collect information for a “visual inventory” of southern Wyoming.

5Jul2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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$1.1 Billion Budget for BLM Proposed by Obama

While focusing on renewable energy development and climate change adaptation, the budget also includes a $2.0 million increase in BLM’s Soil, Water, and Air Management program for air quality monitoring that will be targeted to areas with current or anticipated intensive oil and gas development.

3Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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