Encana project could add 3,500 gas wells in Wyoming
A proposed project would potentially double the number of gas wells that have been drilled to date in western Wyoming’s biggest gas fields.
Encana Oil & Gas, USA proposes to drill as many as 3,500 gas wells on 220 square miles of as-yet undrilled land in the Upper Green River Basin. The drilling would take place over 10 years.
Heavy drilling since the 1990s has resulted in 1,500 wells in the Jonah Field and 1,400 in the neighboring Pinedale Anticline field, which are among the most productive U.S. gas fields.
Thousands more wells could yet be drilled in the Jonah and Anticline, but over time Encana’s proposed Normally Pressured Lance project could rival either for well numbers.
“It’s a big deal for the benefits that will come back to Wyoming,” Encana spokesman Randy Teeuwen said Friday.