Nearly nine months after Wyoming received $400 million from the first federal Covid-19 relief package, Gov. Mark Gordon plans to disperse the remaining $12 million to help complete oil and gas wells and get people back to work.

The Energy Rebound Program (ERP), created last November to attract workers to the industry, provides business relief for drilled but uncompleted oil and gas wells (DUC), plugging and abandonment projects and wells set to be re-completed. The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (WOGCC) will administer the program. Operators could be reimbursed for up to $500,000 per project, with applications taken from Tuesday through June 25.

WOGCC Deputy Supervisor Tom Kropatsch, noting the program’s usefulness last year, said he wants it to be “successful...