BLM releases environmental assessment for Brown Cow gas project

The Bureau of Land Management’s Rawlins, Wyo., field office is asking for public review and comment on the environmental assessment for the Brown Cow pod, an exploratory natural gas project associated with the Atlantic Rim Natural Gas Project.

BLM said the Brown Cow pod is in one of nine areas proposed for interim drilling to provide information to use in preparation of an environmental impact statement for the Atlantic Rim Natural Gas Project. The project area is in Wyoming between Rawlins and Baggs.

Merit Energy of Dallas, Texas, is the project proponent for the Brown Cow pod.

The Brown Cow pod environmental assessment analyzes environmental impacts of drilling, completing and operating 12 coalbed methane wells and up to two water disposal wells in an area some 13 miles north of Baggs, Wyo., on BLM administered public lands.

This project is within an existing, developed oil field, although some new construction will be required.

Water produced from operations would be disposed of in an injection well.