Oil and gas drilling restricted - June 30, 2002

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryJune 2002

Vol. 7, No. 6

Week of June 30, 2002

Oil and gas drilling restricted

by The Associated Press

The fire risk in southwestern Colorado has grown high enough to prompt federal restrictions on oil and gas operations.

The Bureau of Land Management has placed new requirements on all drilling, testing and pipeline construction around Durango to guard against new wildfires.

“Their operations can continue, but we’ve created requirements that they take extra fire-prevention measures,” Jim Powers, assistant manager for physical resources in the BLM’s San Juan Public Lands Center, said June 20.

He said BP Amoco shut down some of its wells near Durango June 20 because of the fire.

Denver-based Evergreen Resources shut down 65 of its gas wells, representing about 5 percent of its production capacity. Williams Co. of Tulsa, Okla., shut down 178 gas wells for two days because of a fire in the Trinidad area earlier this month.

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