All Posts Tagged With: "Powder River Basin"

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State Betting on Coal-Bed Methane Comeback Despite Industry Bankruptcies

Black Diamond Energy Inc. and Loral Operating, for example, each have failed to put up the full amount of state-mandated “idle well” bonding. Each has also failed to perform required “mechanical integrity testing” to ensure their idle wells do not create environmental or human health hazards.

23Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior to Allow Expanded Coal Production in
Powder River Basin

“There’s no place in the country that captures this all-of-the-above approach quite like Wyoming,” Salazar told reporters on a conference call, noting oil-and-gas development in the state as well as its major coal production.

23Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Policy Issues Front and Center –

>> In the Powder River Basin, Ciris Energy Inc. allegedly injected chemicals into the Fort Union coal formation without first obtaining a permit for the action.
>> In the Wyoming Range, time is running out to make comments on the proposed Eagle Prospect and Noble Basin projects in the Upper Hoback Basin, which many sportsmen already oppose.

4Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Wants Money From Company’s Microbe Gas Process

The negotiations were driven by an analysis completed by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management early last year that raised the issue as well as concerns about Luca Technologies’ testing and the potential for Luca to block some future coal mine development

23Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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High Plains Gas Buys J.M. Huber’s Coalbed Methane Assets

The company continued its buying spree of of natural gas assets in the Powder River Basin by signing a bew purchase agreement to acquire J.M. Huber’s coal bed methane properties — roughly 313,600 operated acres.

11Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Bison Pipeline Boosts State’s Natural Gas Industry

As January draws to a close, the good news is that the pipeline built by TransCanada is finally in operation, transporting 407 million cubic feet of gas a day from the Powder River Basin to the Midwest.

31Jan2011 | 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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Oil & Gas WIRE –

>> LEGACY RESERVES closes on three acquisitions
>> MOUNTAIN HAWK ENERGY buys stake in Clabaugh
>> WILLIAMS PARTNERS starts Echo Springs NG plant
>> WYOMING POLS question Interior Memo

16Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Company Pulls Permit to “Grow” Methane

Luca says the nutrients all are organic materials full of vitamins and minerals that are benign and will help the cells grow. But the Powder River Basin Resource Council, an environmental group, and some local landowners disagree.

19Jul2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Court Rejects Challenge to Wyoming Drilling

The Biodiversity Conservation Alliance and others claimed that the bureau wrongly refused to consider their alternative for drilling, which would cluster wells geographically and maintain open space.

23Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Challenges on the Rise for Wyoming Coal

The industry faces a multitude of mounting challenges, from the cost of production and transportation to more stringent pollution controls and a more competitive international market. That means utilities are constantly flirting with a switch to natural gas, energy efficiency and renewables.

9Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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The Pros and Cons of Mining in the
Powder River Basin

Mining coal in the region does cause problems for the local and global environments, but also provides benefits to local and national economies. Steve McManamen of the Gillette News Record has written a timely and interesting piece that points out the dichotomy it presents and some, but not all, of the positive and negative aspects

30Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Need-to-Know Energy News
From Wyoming

>> Tribe Wants Restrictions on Powder River Basin
>> Energy Company Seeks to Expand Production in State
>> Empire Petroleum Acquiring O&G Lease Option
>> Wyoming #29 in State Analysis of Oil Vulnerability

13Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Energy Headlines for a Friday

>> Methane Drilling in Powder River Basin Halts
>> Forum Focuses on Wind Projects on State Lands
>> Wind Farm Clean-Up Cost at Issue
>> Fairgrounds “Going Green”

31Jul2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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