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Coal Bed Methane
CBM in Wyoming
- Contact Information
- Permitting Process
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New! Wyoming CBM Clearinghouse Web Site
Contact Information
- Federal
- U.S. Bureau of Land Management Buffalo Field
Office
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- State
- Department of Environmental
Quality
Air Quality Division
Water Quality Division - Game and Fish
Department
- Geological
Survey
- Oil and Gas
Conservation Commission
- State Engineer's Office
- Industry
- Petroleum
Association of Wyoming
- Powder River CBM
Information Council
- Wyoming Independent Producers Association
- Citizens' Groups
- Powder River Basin Resource
Council
- Wyoming Outdoor Council
Permitting Process
Wyoming DEQ, Water Quality Division, Watershed Management Program, web site containing information on the CBM permitting process in Wyoming, applications, water quality standards, TMDLs, and monitoring. Site also provides a list of contacts in the Water Quality Division.
Studies, Reports, EISs, Maps
- Draft
CBM Environmental Impact Statement, January 2002, U.S. Bureau of
Land Management, Wyoming State Office
- Final
CBM Environmental Impact Statement, January 2003, U.S.
Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office
- Record
of Decision on CBM Environmental Impact Statement, April 2003,
U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office
- Total
Wyoming CBM Production, January 1987 to December 2002
- Coalbed
Methane Development in Wyoming's Powder River Basin: Natural
Gas Development and its Threats to the Landscape, People and
Wildlife, May 2001, Wyoming Outdoor Council and Powder River
Basin Resource Council
- Coalbed
Methane Operations, Gillette, WY, Draft Site Visit Report, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. Prepared by
Eastern Research Group, August 21, 2001
- Field Conference on Impacts of
Coal Bed Methane Development in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming,
U.S. Geological Survey, 2001, Open-File Report 01-126
- Revised
Coal Bed Methane Maps, Each map contains updated CBM permit
information , drilling, production, and other development activities
through February 2003
- Powder River Basin
Oil and Gas Project, Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Draft
Planning Amendment, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Buffalo
Field Office, January 2002
- Powder
River Basin Oil & Gas EIS Coal Bed Methane Activity Breakdown,
(PDF 14 pages)
- Site
Visit Report, Coalbed Methane Landowners and Environmental Impacts,
Gillette, Wyoming. Draft report prepared for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency by the Eastern Group, October 11,
2001
- Site
Visit Report, Coalbed Methane Operations, Gillette, Wyoming,
Draft report prepared for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
by the Eastern Research Group, August 21, 2001
- Stream
Classification Map For Coalbed Methane Area, Wyoming State
Geological Survey (WSGS) and the Wyoming Department of Environmental
Quality (DEQ)
- Subsidence
Potential Related to Water Withdrawal in the Powder River Basin,
(click on press release) Wyoming State Geological Survey, December 2000
- Water
Co-produced with Coal Bed Methane in the Powder River Basin,
Wyoming: preliminary compositional data, by Rice, C.A.., Ellis,
M.S., and Bullock, J.H., Jr., U.S.G.S. Open-File Report
00-372, 2000
- Wyodak
Drainage Coal Bed Methane Environmental Assessment, Decision Record,
March 2001, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Buffalo Field Office

