May 24, 2012
In contrast to recent years, a good number of open campgrounds and Forest roads will greet visitors to the Medicine Bow National Forest this Memorial Day weekend.
Preparations have been in full swing to ready areas for the holiday crowds and some recreation sites on the Brush Creek/Hayden, Douglas and Laramie Ranger Districts are open for the season. I
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — State oil and gas regulators are blaming mechanical failure for a natural gas well blowout in eastern Wyoming last month.
According to an Associated Press story, an investigation by the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission also found that workers at the rig failed to properly engage part of the wellhead apparatus
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A wind shift is holding up attempts to plug an oil well that is spewing methane gas after a blowout in east-central Wyoming.
Workers with Houston-based well control company Boots & Coots still were unable to safely get close enough to the well to get to work by Thursday evening. Th
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An oil well that's leaking natural gas in east-central Wyoming could be plugged soon.
Chesapeake Energy says the work could begin as early as Thursday morning.
A blowout at the well on Tuesday prompted 50 residents outside of Douglas to evacuate their homes amid concern that the gas could explode
January 30, 2012
