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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Workers at a blown oil well in eastern Wyoming have capped an eruption of potentially explosive natural gas by pumping mud into the well. The plugging operation began about 9:30 Friday morning. By 11 a.m. the flow of gas had ceased, although mud continued to be pumped underground...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A wind shift is holding up attempts to plug an oil well that is spewing methane gas after a blowout in east-central Wyoming. Workers with Houston-based well control company Boots & Coots still were unable to safely get close enough to the well to get to work by Thursday evening. Th...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An oil well that’s leaking natural gas in east-central Wyoming could be plugged soon. Chesapeake Energy says the work could begin as early as Thursday morning. A blowout at the well on Tuesday prompted 50 residents outside of Douglas to evacuate their homes amid concern that the gas could explode...

About 67 people remain evacuated from a neighborhood northeast of Douglas after a well blow out Tuesday. The incident occurred at a Chesapeake Energy site around 4pm. “They were casing the well yesterday when they had a flow control problem, or blowout. There were no injuries on the rig. They got everybody off the rig and the rig shut down and there was a lot of natural gas coming up out of the ground.”

GLENROCK, Wyo. (AP) — Several dozen residents near Douglas have evacuated because of a problem at a natural gas well.

A Douglas pilot was making a charity flight when his plane went down in northern Utah last week.

The missing plane of a Douglas, Wyoming pilot and passenger has been found in the mountains of northern Utah. A Cessna 210 carrying Douglas pilot and business owner, Daleray Madewell and his passenger, Jennifer Sebesta of Glenrock, off Thursday. According to the Douglas Budget, the two were found at a location in the Wasatch mountains of Morgan County Utah, near the airport where they took off and were reportedly flying a mission for Wyoming Pilots for Christ.

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