All Posts Tagged With: "Green River Basin"

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Wyoming Still Has an Ozone Problem

Delaying the implementation of a new ozone standard until 2013 may actually put more pressure on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to move forward with a recommended “non-attainment” designation for all of Sublette and parts of Sweetwater and Fremont counties due to the ongoing ozone problem.

9Sep2011 | 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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Viewpoint: Energy: Past, Present, Future Needs

The United States now is sitting on the world’s largest known source of fossil fuel. It is called the Green River Formation situated astride the Green River running through Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. It has been determined that several centuries worth of oil shale is deposited there.

1Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar’s Juggling Act on Oil Shale

Thought to contain many billions of barrels of oil trapped in shale, in the form of kerogen, the Green River leases have been the subject of controversy ever since the Interior Secretary, under George Bush, added “lease addenda” on six parcels on federal land, setting sweetheart royalty rates for the producers controlling the leases and expanding existing 160-acre research plots up to 5000 acres.

28Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Studies Hightlight Potential, Peril of Oil Shale

In the last couple of weeks two new reports have emerged that take a clear-eyed look at the prospective oil-shale boom. Though they were produced by the Center of the American West, at the University of Colorado, and Headwaters Economics, two left-leaning think tanks, they are admirably objective and non-ideological.

7Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EnCana Establishes Fixed Price Hedges on Gas Production

EnCana Corporation has extended its risk management program for 2010 by establishing fixed price hedges on about 35 percent of the company’s expected natural gas production.

15Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EnCana Looking to Sell Green River Basin Assets

“Although the Green River Basin is a solidly performing asset, keeping it in our portfolio would limit future opportunities for the asset and for EnCana in other areas,” company spokesman Randy Teeuwen said in a prepared statement.

8Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Group Sues to Stop Jonah Field
Drilling Expansion

The Laramie-based Biodiversity Conservation Alliance cited too much well density in the area as the basis for the lawsuite against the BLM. “The expanded drilling approved by federal regulators would leave the area moonscaped,” said a spokesperson.

20Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Pacific Energy Resources Expands
Green River Basin Presence

The California-based energy player has entered into a Participation Agreement with Houston based Shell and Wolverine Gas & Oil Corporation in order to explore and develop oil and gas interests in the Pacific Creek prospect area of the Green River Basin.

11Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued