All Posts Tagged With: "Wyoming oil and gas industry"

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Governor Mead Unveils Comprehensive Wyoming Energy Policy

The new policy calls for the Cowboy State to maintain its position as the top energy-exporting state while preserving its wild, scenic and pristine landscapes. Mead’s report outlines four priorities: Economic competitiveness, efficient regulation, natural resource conservation and developing new technologies.

15May2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Oil Company Sues Wyoming Counties

Tripower Resources LLC filed suit in Campbell County District Court in late March after Campbell, Crook and Converse counties each listed the company as tax delinquent in late August. According to each county’s treasurer, the company is on the hook for about $885,000 in production taxes from about
12 wells.

8May2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Report: Grand Teton National Park Under Threat From Oil and Gas Development

In an assessment of oil-and-gas drilling in or near national parks, the National Parks Conservation Association found that Teton is suffering effects from well fields as far away as the Upper Green River Basin, a major natural gas development area.

6May2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Fracking Chemical Disclosure Decision Appealed to Wyoming Supreme Court

Groups like Earthjustice and the Powder River Basin Resource Council argue that the separate chemicals used in the fracking process should be public information under the Wyoming Public Records Act.

19Apr2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Water is the Next Great Wyoming Energy Resource

Each project will require large amounts of a certain precious resource — water. Water which may or may not be in some way related to what you drink. Each plan is sure to draw attention from people both in favor of and opposed to such development, especially when it could threaten present or future drinking water. Both sides are likely to throw out claims
about the water’s quality and potential as a drinking source.

8Mar2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Emission Questions Loom Large Over Oil and Gas Industry

Regulators and natural gas producers desperately want to understand the recipe that triggers a wintertime ozone event. Future gas development here, or at least the pace of future gas development, may depend on it.

6Mar2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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WOGCC Might Soon Conclude Supervisor Search

“I’m hopeful we can vet a couple of candidates, and I hope we can come to a point where we can make an offer,” said Ryan Lance, the state’s director of lands and investments and a commission member. “You can’t sit on qualified applicants very long.”

3Mar2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Can Lead by Example

Gov. Matt Mead deserves praise for taking a serious look at a tool that could help defuse the growing clamor about the risks of hydraulic fracturing. His office recently announced it was considering rules that would require companies test nearby water wells before they drill and, in the popular slang term for the practice, frack oil and natural gas wells.

20Feb2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Considers Groundwater Testing Mandate

The governor’s office is looking into possibly requiring oil and gas companies drilling in the state to test the local groundwater for any pollution before they sink a drill bit into the ground. Colorado recently established new groundwater testing regulations that could provide a template.

5Feb2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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The Niobrara Shale Play – the Next Bakken?

To date, most of the Niobrara’s O&G development focuses on the Denver-Julesburg Basin, with hot spots in the Wattenberg field of Weld County, Colorado, and (to a much lesser degree) Wyoming’s Silo field. Niobrara operators face unique challenges in this formation, but remain hopeful because of new estimates on overall production expectations over the next few years.

2Feb2013 | | 1 comment | Continued
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2012 Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Awards Finalists Announced

The inaugural Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Awards will be held in Denver on Tuesday 12 March 2013 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. The awards celebrate the achievements of upstream & midstream companies, service providers and suppliers, twinned with the industry’s commitment to H&S, Environmental Stewardship and Corporate Social Responsibility.

28Jan2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Environmental Defense Fund, Wyoming Outdoor Council Team to Protect Wyoming Air from Oil and Gas Development

One of the first efforts in this partnership surrounds strengthening air quality regulation for the oil and gas industry in Pinedale, WY where persistent ozone pollution threatens the health of local residents.

20Jan2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Water is Fracking Issue in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah

Commercial oil shale development in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado would require large volumes of water, threatening Western water supplies and jeopardizing fish and wildlife, according to a report released Thursday by Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development.

26Nov2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Regional Insight: The Flack Over Fracking Continues — It’s Time to Export Common Sense

Providers of hydraulic fracturing services, themselves, need to be talking about safety, environmental protection, and responsible practices. But they’re not, and that’s puzzling. They have just as much at stake as the oil and gas operators for whom they work.

18Oct2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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