Wyoming Energy

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s top regulator of oil and gas development is quitting after he remarked that greed motivates people who assert that hydraulic fracturing contaminated their groundwater. Gov. Matt Mead on Thursday announced the resignation of Tom Doll, supervisor of the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Carbon County commissioners are taking issue with a local critic of a proposed coal-to-gasoline plant. David Throgmorton is director of the local higher education center who has written newspaper columns critical of the DKRW Advanced Fuels plant...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead and other state officials are traveling to China this week for a conference on advanced coal technologies. First Lady Carol Mead and the Mead’s two children are traveling with the governor at their own expense...

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Two workers were injured during a brief fire at the same refinery near Rawlins where four workers were injured in another blaze last month. Sinclair Oil. Corp. spokesman Clint Ensign tells the Associated Press in an email Tuesday  that the fired happened Friday night...

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Researchers from the University of Wyoming will address critical issues of advanced coal use at a conference next week in China. The 2012 International Advanced Coal Technologies Conference is scheduled for June 3-7...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Opponents of natural gas drilling in the Wyoming Range want to buy an energy company’s drilling leases, but both sides appear to be waiting for the other to make the first move. The Associated Press reported Friday that Plains Exploration and Production of Houston says it will consider offers but hasn’t received any...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming officials have issued two notices of violation to Cloud Peak Energy Inc. following a blast at the Cordero Rojo coal mine near Gillette that registered on seismographs on the scale of a small earthquake. No injuries were reported after the blast May 1...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s top oil and gas regulator says the companies involved in a natural gas well blowout in eastern Wyoming last month won’t face any fines. Tom Doll, the state’s oil and gas supervisor, tells the Casper Star-Tribune (http://bit...