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Jonah Field is a large natural gas field in the Green River Basin in Sublette County, Wyoming, in the United States.The field is approximately 790.2 miles (1,271.7 km) west of Iowa City and 906.2 miles (1,458.4 km) north of Dallas in southwestern Wyoming, and is estimated to contain 10.5 trillion cubic feet (300 km 3) of natural gas.
The Salt Creek Oil Field is located in Natrona County, Wyoming. [2] By 1970, more oil had been produced by this field than any other in the Rocky Mountains region and accounted for 20 percent of the total production in Wyoming. [3] Petroleum seeps in the area were known before 1880, but oil strikes near Lander led to claims by Schoonmaker and ...
This shale seal was broken during the Laramide Orogeny leading to the migration of oil into the Tensleep Formation. The oil now is trapped in anticlines formed by the Laramide. [7] The Mowry Shale is a well-known source rock of Paleozoic reservoirs in Wyoming with the highest total organic content in the area. [5]
Mutual was acquired by the Continental Oil Company in the mid-1920s with most of the field. The refinery closed by 1957. The refinery and another built by Standard Oil in Glenrock and others in Casper were connected to the field by pipelines. [2] [4] Some of the field's wells were developed on land owned by the University of Wyoming. The ...
The explosion of natural gas wells drilled during Wyoming's most recent energy industry boom continues with more than 2,000 projected wells in the Wamsutter gas field to be operational by 2020. [19] The gas field encompasses an area in the Red Desert about 55 miles (89 km) long and 35 miles (56 km) wide. [ 18 ]
There is a recent resurgence in oil and gas production as a result of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. This resurgence is occurring mainly in the Wyoming portion of the basin, which is historically known as the source of the basin's oil. In 2009, a low of 38,000 barrels of oil per day were produced in the basin.
Pages in category "Oil fields in Wyoming" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Big Muddy oil field; E.
The C & H Refinery Historic District comprises an intact industrial complex in Lusk, Wyoming that documents an early 20th-century refinery.The C & H Refinery is noted as the smallest functioning oil refinery in the world, and may be the only remaining thermal distillation refinery, all other refineries having modernized to the catalytic cracking method.