University of Wyoming Completes Drilling and Data Collection

Drilling and data collection of a 12,810ft stratigraphic test well has been completed by the University of Wyoming's Carbon Management Institute and industry partner Baker Hughes. The stratigraphic test well will aid researchers in evaluating the Rock Springs Uplift in Southwest Wyoming. The goal is to see if the uplift has the potential of being a geographical carbon dioxide storage site.

The University of Wyoming Carbon Management Institute (CMI)  was able to recover 912ft of core from the stratigraphic test well. Originally CMI and Baker Hughes planned on drilling 720ft. Photographs of core sections are now being taken by Houston based PetroArc International, a high resolution imaging firm.

Further analysis will be done by the Wyoming Carbon Underground Storage Project (WY-CUSP). The $16.9 million WY-CUSP is managed by CMI and co-sponsored by the United States Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy. The stratigraphic test well and its results could initiate Wyoming's first successful carbon capture and storage project. If the project is successful it would put Wyoming in an elite class of global leaders in CO2 sequestration efforts.

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