Presentations

Wyoming Pipeline Authority Executive Director Bryan Hassler's presentation for the 2019 Wyoming Oil & Gas Fair in Casper, Wyoming. Presentation covers topics including the transition to the Wyoming Energy Authority (WEA), Wyoming energy "buckets", infrastructure limitations, and economic trends along with other Wyoming energy related topics.

The 2019 Presentation to the Joint Minerals Commitee by Bryan Hassler Executive Director of the Wyoming Pipeline Authority. Topics covered include a functional approach to Wyoming's energy resources, observations, impediments to development, and planning for future success.

Topics covered in this briefing:

• Ongoing Operator & Vendor Support
• WY Energy & Policy Insights
• Wyoming CO2-EOR Potential & Impact
• Impact of Electricity Costs on Oil/Gas Development
• Proposed Benchmarking

Play Based Exploration, or PBE, is a phrase that is being heard more and more frequently as Explorers return to their geological roots in the increasingly demanding search for exploration opportunities, in particular those which offer the potential to add material hydrocarbon volumes to our portfolio.

• CO2 Foam Stabilization using nanoparticles
• Numerical simulation of tight fractured gas reservoirs
• Process based models guided by seismic data
• Data-driven flood modeling/ management

• Data Driven Reservoir Management
• Development of a Fully Compositional Model for Timber Creek
• Impact of Primary Strata on Recovery Factors in Aeolian
• Systems
• Wertz Tensleep

There are two main themes of this poster. The first theme is to provide an update on the stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Tensleep/Casper Formation of Southeast Wyoming (and parts of Northern Colorado), and oil production from these rocks. We incorporate new measured sections, stratigraphic analysis and petrographic work undertaken by the authors. To this end we created a new database in ArcGis (geographic information software) of tops and other information that updates the historical well database of the Wyoming Oil and Gas Commission archived in Casper. This new database has been used to create Common Risk Segment (CRS) maps of the Upper Tensleep oil play in Southeast Wyoming. These CRS maps indicate trends in Tensleep reservoir, charge and trap that are useful in planning further exploration. It is possible that use of advanced seismic techniques applied over the complex structural terrains in the identified high potential areas of SE Wyoming will produce new leads and ultimately, new discoveries.