All Posts Tagged With: "Chesapeake Energy"

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Niobrara Production, Permitting on the Rise

“In the Powder River Niobrara play, we’ve finally cracked the code with numerous recent wells” into newly identified drilling areas, said Steven Dixon, Chesapeake’s chief operating officer and vice president of operations and geosciences.

20Aug2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Chesapeake Puts Niobrara Assets on the Block

The area includes both conventional and unconventional reservoirs, and last year Chesapeake sold acreage there to China’s Cnooc Ltd. (CEO, 0883.HK). The sale will not impact the company’s joint venture with CNOOC because all Niobrara drilling has been refocused into the Powder River area of the play.

29May2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Regulator: No Fines Even if Workers Caused Gas Well Blowout

Well owner Chesapeake Energy Corp. and drill rig-owner Trinidad Drilling Ltd., won’t face any citations for the blowout, which didn’t cause any injuries but vented up to 2 million cubic feet of explosive gas and 31,500 gallons of drilling fluid into the air and around the drill site near Douglas, Wyoming.

14May2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Update: Chesapeake Well Finally Plugged

Updated: Workers at a blown Chesapeake Energy Corp. oil well in eastern Wyoming took advantage of changing winds Friday to plug the well with mud and end a powerful, three-day eruption of potentially explosive natural gas.

27Apr2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Eastern Wyoming Getting More Attention
From Drillers

While the headlines may be going to the Niobrara Shale play, other areas are getting a fresh look from energy companies for the first time in decades. So far this year, the commission has issued 124 permits for Converse, Natrona and Campbell counties, compared to 87 for Larimie, Platte and Goshen.

15Apr2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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China Firm to Pay $570M for Oil and Gas Interests in Wyoming and Colorado

Cnooc Ltd., the country’s biggest oil and natural gas producer, is purchasing a one-third interest in Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s 800,000 leased acres in the Powder River Basin of southeast Wyoming and the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin in Colorado.

31Jan2011 | | 2 comments | Continued