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Gaining a Stake in The Niobrara Shale:
Is it the Next Bakken?

Conference producers say the Tight Oil Niobrara Congress & Gala Dinner 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Denver on Thursday will be the first dedicated forum combining geological and completions disciplines to address how operators can unlock the play’s potential within an economically viable framework.

19May2012 | admin | 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 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Previewing the NIOBRARA REPORT

The E-zine launches later this month with the premiere edition being delivered to subscriber inboxes. If you haven’t already signed up for your copy, click the banner to the right to receive every bimonthly edition for free. In the meantime, here are some excerpts from the issue …

9May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Update: Chesapeake Well Finally Plugged

Updated: Workers at a blown Chesapeake Energy Corp. oil well in eastern Wyoming took advantage of changing winds Friday to plug the well with mud and end a powerful, three-day eruption of potentially explosive natural gas.

27Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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WPX Energy Sets Safety Mark in
Powder River Basin

Over the past nine years, WPX employees around Gillette have worked 2.1 million hours and driven 16.2 million miles without incurring a work-related injury that causes an employee to miss work. It is welcome news for an oil and gas industry in Wyoming that has seen too many accidents in recent years,

24Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Partnership to Put $380 Million in Encana’s
Jonah Field Gas Play

Houston-based Contango Oil and Gas Company is investing in the funding consortium that will target tight sandstone formations using shale gas completion technology. The Jonah field is the third-largest oil producing field in Wyoming and one of the largest single gas fields in the United States.

11Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New Energy MBA Programs Offered Through
UW College of Business

The University of Wyoming College of Business , in cooperation with UW’s School of Energy Resources and College of Law , is launching two new energy-focused tracks this fall in conjunction with its full-time MBA program.

9Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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True Oil Seeks to Drill in Bridger-Teton National Forest

True Oil has held leases to the area since 1978, said Tom Walker, a True Oil manager. But it wasn’t until recently that advanced technology allowed drilling to occur horizontally through shale using hydraulic fracturing, which is more conducive and cost-effective in the area, he said.

6Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Niobrara Update — Colorado Agencies Schedule Series of Public Meetings on Oil and Gas

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission said in a Tuesday announcement that the meetings will provide information about the regulatory roles of state agencies and existing regulations governing oil and gas development.

4Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Tracking the Niobrara — Colorado Communities Ride the Oil and Gas Wave

Casper’s oil-driven economic activity and abundance is the kind that Greeley and Weld County in northern Colorado hope to see in the years ahead. Thanks to the emerging boom in the Niobrara shale formation, the region already is seeing lower county property taxes, added employment, revitalized roads and additional education funding.

2Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Op-Ed: Local Sage-Grouse Conservation —
or Just More Regulation?

The Fish and Wildlife Service has been directed by a federal judge to make a final decision on whether to fully list the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act by 2015. The implications are weighing heavily on sportsmen, hunters, private landowners, ranchers, energy developers, and other land users across the West.

26Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Find Solutions, Cut The Rhetoric, Save
the Sage Grouse

A new BLM study indicates that energy development and West Nile virus outbreaks threaten to make the sage grouse extinct in Wyoming. According to the “Powder River Basin Sage Grouse Viability Study,” from 2001 to 2005, sage grouse populations have declined 82 percent within the coalbed methane fields in northeast Wyoming.

22Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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REGIONAL NEWS — Industry Group Responds to Colorado Public Health Study on Air Pollution From Fracking

Energy In Depth says that if you look past the ominous headlines that the study launch generated and examine the range of what it describes as ‘the strange assumptions forming the basis for the report,’ the conclusions are not only rendered fairly predictable, but also flawed.

21Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Bill Barrett Corp Adjusts Spending - More Oil, Less Gas

The energy company said last week it will reduce natural gas drilling activity this year in favor of increased oil development. The company cited lower prices as the reason, and is reducing its activity in natural gas by $120 million.

5Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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