BLM posts EA for proposed seismic work south of Elko, Nev.

The US Bureau of Land Management has posted an environmental assessment for proposed seismic work on a lease Noble Energy Inc. holds south of Elko, Nev., the US Department of the Interior agency announced.

Nick Snow

Aug. 20, 2013

Houston-based Noble plans to run 3D seismic surveys this fall on 63,000 acres of leases it holds on public and private land 21 miles south of Elko, BLM’s Elko district office said in an Aug. 15 notice.

The holdings are in the Huntington Valley area of Elko County, it indicated. Noble expects the work to take about 60 days once it obtains the necessary permits, the notice said. Comments will be accepted through Aug. 30, it 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.