All Posts Tagged With: "CO2 emissions"

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Oil Firms Question Carbon Sequestration

From their view, it doesn’t make sense to inject carbon dioxide — a greenhouse gas — for permanent geologic storage when the industry is desperate for CO2 supplies to flush more oil from existing fields.

1Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Coal Plant Draws Fire in South Dakota

A group of Rapid City residents and the South Dakota Peace and Justice Center contend that Black Hills Power could have avoided building an expensive new coal-fired power plant in Wyoming by implementing energy efficiency measures.

7May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA to Seek More Data on Emissions –
Industry to Study Proposal

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed adding the oil and gas sector and facilities that inject carbon dioxide into the ground to the greenhouse gas sources that are required to report their annual emissions to the government.

25Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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COP-15: The Mice in Council

Long ago a group of mice held a supreme council to consider how to deal with the threat posed by the local Cat. After hours of debate they finally agreed the best solution was to tie a bell around the Cat’s neck so they would have advance warning of its approach. They began returning to their homes, when a wise old mouse said, “I have just one question — who’s going to tie the bell on the Cat?”

30Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Proposed Coal-to-Gas Plant Gets Governor’s Support

The DOE is weighing an application from DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC for a loan to help build the proposed $2.7 billion facility in southeastern Wyoming. The project is one of four finalists the federal agency has selected nationwide for a shot at a share of the $8 billion in available funding.

19Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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CH2M HILL Awarded Wyoming CO2 Pipeline Project

The project involves capturing gas emissions from the Lost Cabin Gas Plant in Fremont County, and injecting it into oil wells in Encore’s Bell Creek Field in southeastern Montana, with the aim of helping to increase domestic oil production from that field.

30Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Energy Research Projects Seek Stimulus Funds

Wyoming scientists and other groups have drawn up a range of proposals for stimulus-funded research projects to help the state’s energy industry, largely by studying how to deal with carbon dioxide emissions.

3Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Energy Independence Not Attainable Until at Least 2030 — Says KPMG Survey of Oil
and Gas Executives

Execs say mass production of alternative energy not possible by 2015; Over half now believe in global warming, but still don’t support cap-and-trade or carbon tax

5May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Ranchers Voice Skepticism on Carbon Storage Plan

Only ranchers who have a grazing plan would qualify for the program, which would require the ranchers to watch out for overgrazing so that their grass is long enough to store carbon.

23Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Likwartz Looks Forward and Back as He Retires
From the Oil and Gas Commission

“We are going to have to diversify. We produce more energy than any other state in the country. But it is difficult because we are a small state with long distances between populations that are far from markets.”

13Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State’s CO2 Storage Research Heats Up

The project could help make Wyoming a major player in the emerging science of CO2 sequestration. It could also help make the state an attractive destination for underground storage of CO2 from America’s coal-fired power plants.

6Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Special Report: Inside the $100-million
GE-Wyoming Coal Project

How much the state will gain from the exclusive arrangement with GE is not clear yet, but if the project develops a more efficient and economical process for gasification of Powder River Basin coal, it could be a significant boost for Wyoming’s considerable coal interests.

20Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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