Wyoming Energy

Three workers at the Sinclair refinery near Rawlins have been flown to a burn center in Colorado following a flash fire. Sinclair Oil Corp. says the incident happened inside a gas recovery unit at its refinery, about five miles east of Rawlins, about 10:20 a.m. Tuesday.

The Northern Laramie Range Alliance has ridden their resistance to a 66 turbine wind farm for the mountains south of Glenrock to the Wyoming Supreme Court. Pioneer Wind Park is a two part project from Wasatch Wind out of Utah. The company had obtained approvals and expected to begin construction this spring, but according to Wasatch Wind Spokesperson Michelle Stevens, they’ll wait for the litiga

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — Some coal companies operating in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin are cutting back on overtime and the use of temporary contract workers because of reduced demand. Peabody Energy Corp. has two mines in Campbell County...

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

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wildhorse Energy says it has sold its Sweetwater uranium project to an unidentified mining company for $1.4 million.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Encana Corp. is getting help developing natural gas in Wyoming’s Jonah field. The Associated Press reported Monday that the subsidiary of a Texas company, Contango Oil & Gas, and other investors have formed Exaro Energy II LLC. Ex...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead is heading to China in June for an international coal conference. Renny MacKay is spokesman for the governor. MacKay says Mead will be at the conference from June 3-5 and plans to travel in China for a few days after that to inspect some coal projects...

A coalition of environmentalists filed a petition Monday saying the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission granted exclusions allowing natural gas producers to hold secret the constituents in their hydraulic fracturing fluid without justification. The state’s Oil and Gas Supervisor, Tom Doll, maintains the commission is following its Hydraulic Fracturing Disclosure Rule and the Open Records Act.