The US Bureau of Land Management’s Rawlins, Wyo., field office announced that it will host the 2016 annual meeting of the Atlantic Rim natural gas development review team on Dec. 10 in that southern Wyoming community.
The team is made up of federal, state, county, and private entities charged with monitoring implementation of the project’s 2007 record of decision that authorized multiple operators to develop the 270,080-acre project, officials said. It selected an alternative that involves drilling 2,000 wells within the project area south of Rawlins, with a maximum 7,600-acre surface disturbance at any given time and a 6.5-acre/well site short-term ratio of less than 6 years.
Meeting topics will include review of annual activity, reclamation monitoring and effectiveness, performance goal evaluation, and updates from the mule deer, greater sage grouse, songbird, and sensitive fish working groups, officials indicated.
Nearly 1.35 bcf of gas is expected to be produced during the project’s lifetime, they said. Site-specific environmental assessments are conducted for each new surface disturbing activity, including well pads, roads, pipelines, and ancillary facilities, they added.
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NICK SNOW covered oil and gas in Washington for more than 30 years. He worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining OGJ as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He retired from OGJ in January 2020.