Wyoming Energy

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Texas company that plans to build a plant to convert coal to gasoline in Carbon County is still negotiating with Idaho National Laboratory about reviewing the project. DKRW Advanced Fuels chairman Robert Kelly says he expects the laboratory review will take about 30 days once an agreement is reached...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The head of a Texas company that plans to build a plant to convert coal to gasoline in Carbon County says discussions are still ongoing with Idaho National Laboratory about reviewing the project. Robert Kelly is chairman of DKRW Advanced Fuels...

Lawmakers are considering a name change for a task force and fund that provides money for research for innovative ways of dealing with carbon dioxide produced by burning coal. The Gillette News Record reports Senate File 15 would rename the University of Wyoming’s Clean Coal Task Force to the “Advanced Conversion Technologies Task Force.”

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies are accompanying geophysical crews while they explore for oil beneath two residential subdivisions east of Cheyenne. The Laramie County Sheriff’s Office says the deputies are going along to prevent any misunderstandings between the crews and homeowners...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s top elected officials have approved more oversight of the practice of flaring, or burning off excess gas from oil and gas wells on state land. The purpose is to charge royalties on at least some of that gas...

DENVER (AP) — The federal government’s new plan for oil shale development on public lands would make almost half a million acres in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado available for research on how to commercially produce oil from oil shale. The George W...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Federal land managers have scheduled public meetings in Wyoming and Idaho on a sage grouse habitat analysis for a proposed electric power transmission line. The Bureau of Land Management says the meetings will be held Feb...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming has issued 19 citations for an explosion that killed three workers near an oil well last year. Workplace safety officials say they mailed the citations Thursday but won’t release additional details until the recipients confirm they received the documents...