All Posts Tagged With: "wyoming natural gas production"

post thumbnail

Wyoming Board Approves New Natural Gas Flaring Policy

The decision means the State Board of Land Commissioners will now be involved in deciding whether state royalties should be charged on natural gas flared on state-leased wells.

4Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

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
post thumbnail

Wyoming Wind and Coal Need Natural Gas Bridge

“One of the biggest hedges against the boom-and-bust cycles is adding value to our products,” Mark Northam, director of the University of Wyoming’s School of Energy Resources, said at the same legislative committee meeting in June. Northam said coal-gasification is “a technology whose time has come, and it’s good for the state.”

11Jul2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Behind Veneer, Doubt on Future of Natural Gas

One senior Energy Information Administration official describes an “irrational exuberance” around shale gas. An internal EIA document says companies have exaggerated “the appearance of shale gas well profitability,” are highlighting the performance of only their best wells and may be using overly optimistic models. From the NY Times

27Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Wyoming Legislators Support Plans for Lake DeSmet Plant

Members of the Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development Interim Committee decided Tuesday to develop legislation to contribute toward the $5 million cost of a study to help with facility design.

23Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

CEO: Natural Gas ‘Jump-Starting’ Clean Energy

Higher U.S. production of natural gas “is already jump-starting the transition to clean energy,” and there is no need to add mandates and subsidies for other technologies, Rowe said at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington on Tuesday.

9Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

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
post thumbnail

Numbers Point to Natural Gas Pickup

In Wyoming, the number of drilling permits issued through November of this year is up by about 300. There’s still a pretty bright future for natural gas, not only in southwest Wyoming, but for the entire state,” said Bruce Hinchey, president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming. “We may have weathered this little bottom.”

29Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Drilling Within City Limits: An Inside Job

When Encana started tapping formations inside the city limits of Erie, Colorado, it took some creative relationship-building to make it a win-win situation for both the town and company. Excerpted from Solutions E-Magazine

9Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Peregrine Midstream Launches Gas Storage Open Season

Ryckman Creek Resources, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Peregrine Midstream Partners LLC, will hold a non-binding Open Season for prospective customers interested in contracting for up to 15 Bcf of firm, high-deliverability, multi-cycle (HDMC) gas storage capacity in Uinta County, near the Opal Hub.

10Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

ConocoPhillips CEO: Natural Gas a
“Job Creation Machine”

Mulva emphasized the need for a “balanced energy policy that allows all sources to compete on the basis of abundance, cost, efficiency, and environmental merit. We don’t have that today as current policies stack the deck in favor of coal and renewable sources.”

28Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Natural Gas Industry Critical of Frac’ing Provision in Energy Bill

Labeled a ‘watered down, disappointing proposal by clean energy groups, the proposed legislation currently under consideration in the U.S. Senate is still drawing fire — this time from the natural gas industry, which is balking at a late addition involving frac’ing chemicals disclosure.

29Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Shale Seen as Transforming Gas Into a
Global Commodity

Speaking at the Colorado Oil & Gas Association’s annual Rocky Mountain Energy Conference in Denver this week, several industry experts agreed that shale gas is transforming the North American gas market and that natural gas will eventually become a global commodity.

10Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Study Says Natural Gas Use Likely to Double

The increase, the report concluded, will come largely at the expense of coal and will be driven both by abundant supplies of natural gas — made more available by shale drilling — and by measures to restrict the carbon dioxide emissions that are linked to climate change.

3Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Older Entries