News & Events Archive

• December 16, 2009

  Industry is in on carbon sequestration

  The Gillette (WY) News Record reports that the University of Wyoming’s carbon capture and sequestration research program “is getting a hand from industry with $4.3 million in critical services,” as “three companies have decided to contribute their experience and expertise to help the university complete its $16.9 million project preparing for commercial-scale carbon sequestration in southwestern Wyoming.” Exxon Mobil Corp. and Baker Hughes “have partnered with the university to map the subsurface geology to make sure it is being injected in the right place and will stay there,” while General Electric is working with UW “on the High Plains Gasification and Advanced Technology Center and on efforts to train a professional work force in carbon sequestration.” The DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory has already “awarded an additional $5 million and the Wyoming State Geological Survey also is making in-kind contributions of time and effort.”

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• January 25, 2010

  Study finds Wyoming coal sustains U.S. economy

  The Casper (WY) Star-Tribune reports, “A new study by a University of Wyoming economist boasts, ‘The Powder River Basin contains the largest reserve of low cost hydrocarbons on the planet.’” The “study, ‘Powder River Basin Coal: Powering America,’ was commissioned by the Wyoming Mining Association, and it wades into controversial territory.” The study’s author, economist Tim Considine of the UW School of Energy Resources “wrote that cheap electricity -- which Powder River Basin coal provides throughout much of the United States -- helps make the U.S. industrial manufacturing sector competitive internationally. Additionally, it is ‘an essential factor in propelling the economy forward with lower carbon intensity,’ Considine wrote.”

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• January 30, 2010

  Company eyes coal-gasification plants

  The Casper (WY) Star-Tribune reported High Country Fabrication of Casper, which “manufactures custom industrial equipment such as shell and tube heat exchangers, pressure vessels and scrubbers,” among others, “hopes to have plenty of coal-related work in the years ahead, but not necessarily from the extraction end of the industry.” According to a company official, “one of the biggest things” High Country is looking at is “the coal-gasification technology,” as it expects “coal-gasification projects [to] be a real bonanza.”

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