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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 Mowry Shales are estimated to hold 6.6 million barrels of oil and about 2 billion cubic feet of gas. [7] A generalized cross section of the Upper Cretaceous Units shown from west to east along Southwestern Wyoming. The Cretaceous Mesaverde Group supplies much of the gas to GGRB.
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]
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 ...
Wyoming is a resource rich state with a history of boom and bust cycles. The 1970s energy crisis initiated a coal-mining boom in Wyoming that lasted until the early 80's. The state's latest energy boom (1995–2010) is due to increased development in oil and natural gas production as well as further growth in the coal-mining industry.
State had active oil and or gas wells as of April 2015 [134] but no accidents have been uncovered. – Major crude oil train derailment in Mosier, a small town in the Columbia gorge spilled and burst into flames June 2016. The accident was due to railway dysfunction and bad parts.
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.