All Posts Tagged With: "EnCana Oil and Gas (USA) Inc"

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Partnership to Put $380 Million in Encana’s
Jonah Field Gas Play

Houston-based Contango Oil and Gas Company is investing in the funding consortium that will target tight sandstone formations using shale gas completion technology. The Jonah field is the third-largest oil producing field in Wyoming and one of the largest single gas fields in the United States.

11Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Natural Gas Vehicles: Opportunity
and Adoption

Chrysler plans to build the “first production-line pickup truck powered by natural gas.” The manufacturer says it is set to start building at least 2,000 heavy-duty Ram bi-fuel trucks that operate on a combination of compressed natural gas and gasoline.

27Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA Seeks Pavillion Peer Review Panel

The agency is looking for experts to review a controversial draft report released last month that linked drilling operations in Pavillion, Wyoming, to water contamination in the area. Encana, the operator of the natural gas field, had requested a peer review of EPA’s findings.

18Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Encana Wants More Time from EPA to Respond to Water Contamination Report

Last Friday the energy company sent a letter to Paul Antastas, assistant administrator of the EPA’s Office of Research and Development. In it, Encana asked the EPA to lengthen the 45-day comment period — which is set to expire on January 27 — for comments on a report the agency issued last month on its study of groundwater contamination near the town of Pavillion.

10Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Industry: Pavillion Report Won’t Affect Niobrara Play

As many continue to question the scientific conclusions of the findings, both the EPA and industry representatives say the specific concerns raised in the report are not applicable to southeast Wyoming — because the Niobrara formation is geologically much different than the Pavillion area.

4Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Encana Slams EPA Over ‘Not Factual’
Pavillion Draft Report

In a detailed press release to media, the energy company noted that many of the EPA’s findings from its recent deep monitoring wells, including those related to any potential connection between fracking and Pavillion groundwater quality, “are conjecture, not factual, and only serve to trigger undue alarm.”

13Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Mead Wants Broader Inquiry Into Pavillion Water

State, tribal and federal officials, as well as residents and the natural gas company in the Pavillion area, are already investigating why some water wells there are contaminated.
A separate federal investigation recently discovered high levels of methane, benzene and other chemicals in monitoring wells.

2Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Breaking News — EPA to Regulate Fracking Wastewater Disposal

Federal environmental regulators say they will develop national standards for disposal of the polluted “produced water” generated by hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. The agency said it will draft standards for fracking wastewater that drillers would have to meet before sending it to treatment plants.

20Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Encana Division Opens Natural Gas Fueling Station in Riverton

“In building this infrastructure, we are helping to reenergize the American economy. Up to
35,000 jobs are created with every one percent increase in North America’s natural gas production,” said Eric Marsh, Executive Vice-President of Encana Corporation.

18Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Natural Gas Powered Drilling Rigs Improve Air Emissions and the Bottom line

It’s not perpetual motion, but maybe it’s a runner up. The natural gas experts at Encana, along with the engineers from Ensign Energy Services, have developed a new method of running their natural gas drilling rigs on… natural gas.

10Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Encana Plans to Develop Massive New Gas Field

The largest natural gas producer in Wyoming is planning to develop the Moneta Divide field, with production beginning three to four years from now. It could eventually exceed the Jonah Field in Western Wyoming, according to a company spokesperson.

1Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Encana Contribution to Assist Child Development in Sweetwater County

The donated funds will help provide parenting classes, love and logic curriculum, and classes to assist providers in addressing early child mental health, testing and curriculum kits, and counseling for the children.

23May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Encana Joining Voluntary Fracking Database

Encana coming on board will help the momentum of the new online resource, which industry representatives say will gather steam as more companies join the national database and provide specific well information.

20Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Encana Proposes Up to 3,500 New Wells
Near Jonah Field

If approved, the massive project could more than double the number of natural gas wells in western Wyoming’s most prolific fields. The Bureau of Land Management began taking initial public comments on the project this week.

15Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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