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Natural Resources Conservation Service Wyoming, US Department of Agriculture; U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management - Wyoming; State agencies: State of Wyoming Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources & Policy; Office of State Lands and Investments Lands, minerals, oil and gas; Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
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.
Wyoming is the top coal producer of the 50 states in the United States, has significant oil and gas reserves, and its government and laws reflect an interest in energy production, especially fossil fuels. [104] The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission regulates many aspects of oil, coal, and gas development in this resource-rich state. [105]
BP is focussing on new holdings in West Texas's Permian region, and wants to unload land worth about $3 billion (£2.3 billion) in Oklahoma, Colorado, East Texas and Wyoming.
The legislation safeguards the Wyoming Range in western Wyoming from future oil and gas leases while creating a mechanism for the buy-back and retiring of existing oil and gas leases. The Wyoming Range Legacy Act passed as part of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2009.
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 ...
In Texas, oil and gas are regulated by the Texas Railroad Commission, in Oklahoma by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, and in North Dakota by the Industrial Commission. In Colorado and Wyoming, the agencies are the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commissions. Local control of oil and gas operations is contentious.
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.