All Posts Tagged With: "Niobrara County"

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Regional Update — Shale Priming The West’s Energy Industry

France energy giant Total SA is joining the domestic shale rush with a $2.3 billion investment in Chesapeake Energy. Meanwhile, China Petrochemical Corp. is ponying up $2.5 billion in a joint venture with Devon Energy to explore oil and gas projects from the Niobrara in Colorado to the Tuscaloosa Marine shale in Alabama and Mississippi.

5Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Niobrara’s Slow Start Not Cause For Worry

“You want to get as much data as possible so you don’t drill a $3 million to $4 million dry hole,” he said. “My expectation is (the companies) want to have another tool of using that additional science to have a better opportunity to drill a productive well.”

18Jul2011 | admin | 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 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Landowners in SE Wyoming Get Lowdown
on Niobrara Play

One of the seminar’s speakers, Attorney Matt Romsa, said one question he’s been asked several times in the last eight months is what happens if a landowner doesn’t sign an oil and gas lease? “You’re obviously not obligated to sign a lease,” he said. But that has consequences …

12Nov2010 | admin | 15 comments | Continued
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Initial Production Figures Released for SE Wyoming Oil Push

The well produced nearly 50,000 barrels from January through July of this year, but that information remained confidential until now at the request of SM Energy.

1Nov2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Regional Report: Niobrara Play and Changing Farming Attitudes Impact Eastern Wyoming

New technology called directional drilling, however, has given new life to oil and gas in the county via the Niobrara Shale. Wyoming Oil and Gas Commission figures show that in April 2007, Niobrara County produced 234,000 mcf of natural gas, a zenith last reached there during the early 1980s.

13Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Seeks to Clarify Revised Oil & Gas
Leasing Process

While not required to hold a public hearing on the changes to the lease sale form, state officials hope the meeting will clarify ambiguity regarding bonding, royalties, valuation and other matters concerning the first revision of the state oil and gas lease form in 20 years.

30Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Rex Energy Starts Drilling Program
in Niobrara Shale

“This is the biggest play going on, I would presume, in the Rocky Mountains right now,” said Harold Kemp, assistant director of the state lands mineral leasing and royalty compliance division.

12Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Oil and Gas Dispatches –

>> Converse County Oil Rush Prompts Huge Survey
>> Pipeline Gets a Key Approval
>> Legal Questions Arise Over Methane Water
>> Continental Accelerates Niobrara Shale Play
>> Double Eagle Acquires More Coalbed Methane Interests

22Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Special Oil & Gas Lease Auction for Niobrara Nets Near Record Amount

The deep Niobrara formation underlying northern Colorado, western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming is where the oil rush is taking hold, with highly productive wells already being tapped in Colorado, just south of the Wyoming line.

14Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Companies Apply to Drill in Southeast Wyoming

Industry officials say new techniques that have opened up North Dakota’s Bakken shale to oil drilling over the past couple years might soon be used to exploit the Niobrara shale underlying eastern Wyoming.

5May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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O&G Operator Questioned About Safety
in Niobrara County

According to Docket 157-2009, WOGCC was holding a special hearing in regards to the allegations made by private citizens. Asher was to show cause why their operations at Bright and Beaver Hole Fields, in northern Niobrara County, were not in compliance with safety provisions and rules and regulations of sour gas wells.

29Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued