Wyoming Energy News

March 15

The School of Energy Resources features information about the energy industry on a weekly basis. Here is a recap of this week's stories.

Baker Hughes Rig Counts

Baker Hughes reports the following rig count activity exploring for oil and/or natural gas.

• U.S. rig count is down 1 rig from last week to 1,026 rigs, with oil down 1 and gas rigs unchanged at 193.
• The U.S. rig count is up 36 rigs from last year's count of 990 with oil rigs up 33 and gas rigs up 4.
• The Wyoming rig count remains at 36.
• Colorado's rig count remains at 34.
• New Mexico is up 1 rig from last week to 106.
• North Dakota is up 3 from last week to 56.
• Texas is down 1 rig to 501.

Opening Prices from Bloomberg Energy

• West Texas Intermediate (WTI) opened at $58.51 up $2.08 from last week.
• Brent Crude opened at $67.18 slight up from last week's price of $66.08.
• Natural gas opened at $2.85 down $.02 from last week.

University of Wyoming Institutional Communications

A new UW wind development study shows Wyoming is the fourth lowest-cost state.

Casper Star Tribune

An article from the Casper Star Tribune explores priorities for oil exploration in the Powder River Basin - engineering or geology.

Brian Jeffries, executive director of the Wyoming Pipeline Authority (WPA), is retiring at the end of the month. WPA is set to merge with the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority.

Anadarko monopoly complaint revived before Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. The protest was denied by the commission noting that nothing new had been raised to change the original decision.

AP News

The Trump administration finalized changes to federal land use plans for western states to ease energy industry restriction to protect sage grouse.