Wamsutter

Rockies Express said it lifted a force majeure Thursday for its booster facility at the Wamsutter Echo Springs interconnect in Sweetwater County, WY.

Rockies Express said it lifted a force majeure Thursday for its booster facility at the Wamsutter Echo Springs interconnect in Sweetwater County, WY.

Rockies Express said it was lifting Monday the force majeure that it had issued Sunday at its booster facility located at the Wamsutter Echo Springs interconnect in Sweetwater County, WY.

Williams said it completed a $45 million gathering and processing system upgrade in Wamsutter, WY. The project included the addition of a third cryogenic gas processing unit at the Echo Springs natural gas plant, boosting capacity by about 140 MMcf/d to 390 MMcf/d and liquids extraction from 18,000 b/d to 28,000 b/d. Williams also expanded the pipeline gathering system that brings natural gas into the plant for processing. Capacity on the system was increased from 330 MMcf/d to roughly 400 MMcf/d.

The Bureau of Land Management released in the Federal Registerlast week its decision on the Continental Divide/Wamsutter IINatural Gas Project, allowing up to 2,130 new gas wells to bedrilled in Sweetwater and Carbon Counties, WY. The BLM basicallyadopted the proposed action outlined in its Final EnvironmentalImpact Statement on the project, which was released in December,but it reduced the total number of proposed gas wells andassociated facilities from 3,000 well locations to 2,130.Associated access roads, pipelines, and other ancillary facilitieswere reduced as well. Allowance of the remaining 870 wells/welllocations and associated facilities will be reconsidered pendingcompletion of a planning review of the Great Divide Resource Area(GDRA) Resource Management Plan (RMP) for the Rawlins Field Office(RFO) area, BLM said.