November 15, 2018 – Natural Gas Intelligence
DJ, PRB Infrastructure Expanding as Natural Gas, Oil Production Increases
By Richard Nemec
With natural gas production topping 5 Bcf/d in the Niobrara formation of the Rocky Mountains, including the Powder River Basin (PRB) of Wyoming and the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin of Colorado, the region is becoming a new center for infrastructure build-out.
Both of the basins are targeted for additional processing plant and pipeline capacity, according to RBN Energy LLC’s Housley Carr, who discussed the growth in a recent blog post.
Carr's upbeat analysis comes in the aftermath of an anti-drilling ballot measure that was defeated last week in Colorado. Had it passed, new drilling was expected to dry up throughout the state.
With the ballot off the table, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) echoed renewed optimism about the prospects for more energy development…
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…Carr analyzed what midstream infrastructure is in place and what will be coming online, particularly processing critical to natural gas liquids (NGL) movement.
He noted that PRB gross gas production was recently about 750 MMfc/d. The previously dominant coalbed methane supplies are now less than half that total at 340 MMcf/d. Most of the basin’s incremental gas output is from unconventional drilling, and the gas supplies require processing to move NGLs.
Most of the growth is in Wyoming’s Campbell and Converse counties. Carr outlined a number of gas processing plants coming online, with more capacity planned in the two jurisdictions…
