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The U.S. rig count peaked at 4,530 in 1981.

Texas lost two rigs and West Virginia decreased by one.

Arkansas, California, Ohio and Utah were unchanged.

Jonah Energy, LLC, seeks to tap 5.25 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, or a year's supply for 74 million average-sized homes.

Linn Energy CEO Mark Ellis says the sale will allow the Houston-based company to significantly reduce leverage and improve financial flexibility.

State officials say they might consider increasing the current 350-foot minimum distance that oil and gas wells must be located away from homes in Wyoming.

Some Wyoming lawmakers are expressing frustration with how the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is addressing thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Petroleum companies and investors are about to get a better idea who has struck black gold and who might be in the red as a result of drilling into the Niobrara (NYE'-oh-BRER'-uh) Shale beneath eastern Wyoming. The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is preparing to open up a vast amount of up-to-now confidential information on more than 900 recently drilled oil and g

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Chevron USA Inc. has gotten the go ahead to add up to 88 new wells in western Wyoming. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management Wednesday said it authorized Chevron to expand Table Rock Field 40 miles east of Rock Springs...