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Article: Development Continues In Wyoming's Hot New Gas Play.
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- Pipeline & Gas Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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In southwestern Wyoming, a rich natural gas play in Sublette County, near the town of Pinedale, is paying off for a number of operators. To date, there have been 136 wells drilled in the Jonah Field , discovered by Casper, WY-based McMurry Oil Company. The majority of the gas from Jonah Field is gathered and transported by Jonah Gas Gathering Company, which is a Wyoming partnership operated and partially owned by McMurry Oil.
Operators have proved up estimated recoverable reserves of 1.5 TCF of natural gas in the Jonah Field. Until recently, existing pipeline and compression facilities limited production to approximately 200 MMcf/d on the Jonah Gas Gathering ...