Company Seeks Regulatory Exemption For Plan to Stimulate Coal-Bed Methane

摘要

A Denver-based company has requested a Safe Drinking Water Act exemption for its proposal to feed nutrients to microbes in coal to stimulate coal-bed methane production in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, a Wyoming oil and gas official told BNA June7.rnThe company, Patriot Energy Resources LLC, also requested and received a postponement of an appearance before the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which will consider the matter, Tom Doll, state oil and gas supervisor with the commission, told BNA. The appearance before the commission was originally scheduled for the June 8 meeting but was postponed until a meeting scheduled for July 20.