All Posts Tagged With: "Tom Doll"

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Wyoming Searches for New Oil and Gas Supervisor

Members of the oil and gas conservation commission, which includes Gov. Matt Mead, met yesterday. Bob King, an independent petroleum engineer, is now serving as interim supervisor. Anyone interested in applying for the job is asked to contact King.

11Jul2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Tom Doll Resigns from the WOGCC Following Greed Remark

Wyoming’s top regulator of oil and gas development has resigned after he remarked at a conference that greed and desire for compensation motivate people who assert that hydraulic fracturing has contaminated their groundwater.

16Jun2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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State Official Pins Pavillion Pollution Complaints on Greed

“I really believe greed is driving a lot of this,” Wyoming Oil and Gas Supervisor Tom Doll told a meeting of fellow state regulators in Vancouver. “I think they’re just looking to be compensated.”

10Jun2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Regulator: No Fines Even if Workers Caused Gas Well Blowout

Well owner Chesapeake Energy Corp. and drill rig-owner Trinidad Drilling Ltd., won’t face any citations for the blowout, which didn’t cause any injuries but vented up to 2 million cubic feet of explosive gas and 31,500 gallons of drilling fluid into the air and around the drill site near Douglas, Wyoming.

14May2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA Draft Links Fracking, Groundwater Contamination in Pavillion

The finding set off calls for tighter rules on the fracking process. But Governor Mead called for more research, warning the EPA study could have “a critical impact on the energy industry and the country. He called the draft study
as “scientifically questionable,” and said more testing
is needed.

9Dec2011 | | 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 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Consortium Seeks to Find Overlooked Methane

Acording to Tom Doll, supervisor of the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, “This pilot project will allow us to demonstrate clear identification of those that should be commercial versus those that should be abandoned. We’re hopeful the data resulting from this and future work will incent operators to focus on our producible gas.”

27May2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Eastern Wyoming Getting More Attention
From Drillers

While the headlines may be going to the Niobrara Shale play, other areas are getting a fresh look from energy companies for the first time in decades. So far this year, the commission has issued 124 permits for Converse, Natrona and Campbell counties, compared to 87 for Larimie, Platte and Goshen.

15Apr2011 | | 0 comments | Continued