All Posts Tagged With: "Wyoming oil and gas"

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Biomass Projects Burned by Low Natural Gas Prices

“The era of low-priced natural gas has blunted opportunities for biomass and other renewables,” said Doug Tiffany, an agricultural economist at the University of Minnesota.

1Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Judge Rules in Favor of Western Watersheds Project, Against BLM

Bureau of Land Management officials are wondering what’s next after a district court judge in Idaho last week ruled in favor of Western Watersheds Project in its lawsuit against the BLM and 16 of its resource management plans in Wyoming and five other Western states.

3Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Oil Field Near Casper Gets a “Boost”

Elk Petroleum, which owns the Grieve field, has agreed to a deal with Denbury Resources for a pipeline to transport carbon dioxide to the field which for enhanced oil recovery.

15May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feds Consider Disclosure of Fracking Fluids
on Public Lands

Salazar said this week the department is weighing how it will move forward with a policy requiring producers to disclose the fluids associated with hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on public lands.

5Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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
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O&G Services Firms Target Small Companies
for Growth

Cash-rich large oilfield service companies have been snapping up smaller rivals as they move to broaden their product lines, and may now be setting their sights on niche players to help them move deeper into new markets around the globe.

23Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Expands “Common-Sense” Efforts to Conserve Sage Grouse Habitat in the West

The federal government will start to protect the sage grouse as a “candidate” species under the Endangered Species Act. The Interior said the compromise decision embraces the latest science indicating that sage grouse need help to avoid extinction in the face of energy development, grazing and house-building.

5Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feds to Review Sage Grouse Status in Wyoming

The overall sage grouse population is actually on the rise in Wyoming as part of the bird’s cyclical trends, according to local wildlife officials. Yet the BLM, which oversees a bulk of sage grouse habitat in the state, has not come forward with its own comprehensive sage grouse conservation plan.

30Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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When Energy Becomes the Real Currency

The long-term trend is just the opposite: scarcity leading inevitably to rising prices. Writing on EconBrowser, James Hamilton provides a painstaking analysis of the energy economics of the last few years. Two points are worth highlighting –

6Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Outfitters Applaud Bill That Withdraws Wyoming Range from Additional Oil and Gas leasing

A vote for the Wyoming Range Legacy Act is a vote for local outfitting businesses, a vote for sportsmen, a vote for Wyoming citizens, and a vote for multiple-use on public land in Wyoming.

26Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Credit Capacity Tops Financial Concerns of Energy CFOs

The majority of U.S. oil and gas exploration and production firms say that “credit capacity restraints, including access to capital” will be their greatest financial challenge in ‘09.

3Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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News and Views From Around the State

>> Duke Energy’s Big Wind Plans for Wyoming
>> Natrona County Looks at Small Wind Turbine Permitting
>> Opinion: The Wyoming Effect
>> Energy Economy Helps UW Hold Tuition Line
>> Wyoming Rig Count Down

19Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Lighthouse Petroleum Closes on Working Interest
in Fremont County

Geologic work has concluded that the property has the potential for 4.3 million barrels of recoverable oil, with a revenue potential in access of $250 million at current pricing, with most expected to occur in shallow wells at depths of less than 1,000 feet.

11Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Pacific Energy Resources Expands
Green River Basin Presence

The California-based energy player has entered into a Participation Agreement with Houston based Shell and Wolverine Gas & Oil Corporation in order to explore and develop oil and gas interests in the Pacific Creek prospect area of the Green River Basin.

11Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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