All Posts Tagged With: "Jonah Field"

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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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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 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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With ‘Wild Lands’ Canceled, Oil Still Spills
in Wyoming

Which is more politically motivated: Congress or the Interior department? The answer to that question depends on whether your party holds sway in the White House or in Congress.

19Jun2011 | 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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Oil & Gas Deals Impacting Wyoming

The latest news shows a healthy appetite for joint ventures and asset expansion, as well as a robust confidence in the growing role of natural gas for power generation. One deal involves purchase of active oil fields held by a Nevada corporation that recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

28Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Defers Leasing Little Mountain Parcel
for Energy Development

The popular recreational area became a flash point for the energy debate in 2007 when Oklahoma-based Devon Energy Co. announced plans to conduct a two-well exploratory drilling project.

8Jun2009 | 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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Wyoming Computer Program to Help Wildlife Habitat

In particular, the program will be utilized to help replace habitat lost from prolific drilling in the natural-gas-rich Jonah Field in the southwest region of the state.

9Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued