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Reasonable Foreseeable Development
Scenario for Oil and Gas
Cover (pdf)
Reasonable Foreseeable Development Scenario for Oil and Gas Report (pdf)

List of Figures
Figure 1. Location of RFO management area and its relationship to other BLM management areas in Wyoming. (.jpg)
Figure 2. Location of oil and gas fields and major structural features within the RFO area.(.jpg)
Figure 3. Non-coalbed methane Federal unit agreements within or intersecting the RFO boundary.(.jpg)
Figure 4. Coalbed methane Federal unit agreements within or intersecting the RFO boundary. (.jpg)
Figure 5. Locations of all non-coalbed methane gas wells drilled within the RFO area.(.jpg)
Figure 6. Stratigraphic nomenclature for Greater Green River Basin.(.pdf)
Figure 7. Coalbed gas wells drilled within RFO Boundary.(.jpg)
Figure 8. Deep hydrocarbon potential and deep wells (>15,000 feet) within RFO area.(.jpg)
Figure 9. Directional well locations within the RFO area.(.jpg)
Figure 10. Horizontal well locations within the RFO area.(.jpg)
Figure 11. Undiscovered technically recoverable natural gas resources by township for RFO area.(.jpg)
Figure 12. Potential for occurrence of oil and gas within the RFO area.(.jpg)
Figure 13. Historical and Projected Gas Prices(.pdf).
Figure 14. Historical and Projected sweet crude oil prices.(.pdf)
Figure 15. Federal oil and gas leases within or intersecting the RFO boundary.(.jpg)
Figure 16. Federal Oil and Gas Lease Sale Results.(.pdf)
Figure 17. Total Bonus and Average per-acrea Bid data.(.pdf)
Figure 18. Approved seismic projects.(.pdf)
Figure 19. Wells drilled annually.(.pdf)
Figure 20. Well depth distribution for wells drilled since 1990.(.pdf)
Figure 21. Wells drilled and wells abandoned from 1980 to 2003.(.pdf)
Figure 22. Coalbed gas wells which received an approved state drilling permit and wells drilled.(.pdf)
Figure 23. Non-coalbed methane development potential within the RFO area.(.jpg)
Figure 24. Coalbed methane developmental potential within the RFO area.(.jpg)
Figure 25. Annual production from gas wells on Federal, private and state minerals.(.pdf)
Figure 26. Annual oil production from Federal, private, and state wells.(.pdf)
Figure 27. Producing oil and gas wells.(.pdf)
Figure 28. Coalbed gas wells drilled and gas produced.(.pdf)
Figure 29. Alternative 3 coalbed methane developmental potential within the RFO area.(.jpg)
Figure A1-1. Location of the Lance unit of analysis with respect to the RFO boundary.(.jpg)
Figure A1-2. Location of the Lewis unit of analysis with respect to the RFO boundary.(.jpg)
Figure A1-3. Location of the Almond unit of analysis with respect to the RFO boundary.(.jpg)
Figure A1-4. Location of the Ericson unit of analysis with respect to the RFO boundary.(.jpg)
Figure A1-5. Location of the Lower Mesaverde unit of analysis with respect to the RFO boundary.(.jpg)
Figure A1-6. Location of the Frontier and Muddy-Dakota-Morrison units of analysis with respect to the RFO boundary.(.jpg)
Figure A2-1. Location of the Southwestern Wyoming Province, Sub-Cretaceous conventional oil and gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-2. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Mowry conventional oil and gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-3. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Hilliard-Baxter-Mancos conventional oil and gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-4. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Mesaverde conventional oil and gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-5. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Lewis conventional oil and gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-6. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Lance-Fort Union conventional oil and gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-7. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Mowry conventional oil and gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-8. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Niobrara continuous oil assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-9. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Niobrara continuous oil assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-10. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Hilliard-Baxter-Mancos continuous gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-11. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Almond continuous gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-12. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Rock Springs-Ericson continuous gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-13. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Lewis continuous gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-14. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Lance-Fort Union continuous gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-15. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Mesaverde coalbed gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-16. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Lance coalbed gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-17. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Fort Union coalbed gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-18. Location of Southwestern Wyoming Province, Wasatch-Green River coalbed gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-19. Location of newest Southwestern Wyoming and Denver Basin province assessment areas.(.jpg)
Figure A2-20. Location of older Southwestern Wyoming Province, Subthrust play areas.(.jpg)
Figure A2-21. Location of older Southwestern Wyoming Province, Platform play area.(.jpg)
Figure A2-22. Location of Denver Basin Province, Fractured Niobrara Limestone Transitional conventional oil and gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-23. Location of Denver Basin Province, Dakota Group and D Sandstone conventional assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-24. Location of Denver Basin Province, Subthrust Structural conventional assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-25. Location of Denver Basin Province, Permian-Pennsylvanian Reservoirs conventional oil and gas assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-26. Location of Denver Basin Province, Fractured Niobrara Limestone continuous oil assessment unit.(.jpg)
Figure A2-27. Location of Denver Basin Province, Denver Formation Coals and Laramie Formation Coals coalbed gas assessment units.(.jpg)


List of Tables
Table 1. (.xls)
Table 2. Total number of wells, by status and ownership type(.pdf)
Table 3. (.xls)
Table 4. Completion status of directional wells drilled(.pdf)
Table 5. Distribution of leased Federal oil and gas covered by 2,220 active federal oil and gas leases (.pdf)
Table 6, 7, and 8.(.pdf)
Table 9. Analysis results showing the calculated reduction in non-coalbed oil and gas wells in Alternative 1 due to Category C restrictions.(.pdf)
Table 10. Summary of reduction in Federal well locations. (.pdf)
Table 11. Estimated development potential levels for non-coalbed oil and gas and coalbed gas well locations. (.pdf)
Table 12. Estimated crude oil plus condensate production for the Rawlins Field Office area, by year, for each alternative and the baseline (unconstrained) development scenario. (.pdf)
Table 13. Estimated conventional gas production from all sources except coalbed gas. (.pdf)
Table 14. Estimated coalbed gas production, by year, for each alternative and the base line (unconstrained) development scenario.(.pdf)
Table 15. Total estimated gas production, by year, for each alternative and the base line (unconstrained) development scenario.(.pdf)
Table 16. Summary of estimates for oil (including condensate) and gas production for each alternative and the base line development scenario.(.pdf)
Table 17. Gross disturbance projections - for all new wells.(.pdf)
Table 18. Gross disturbance projections - for all new wells plus existing wells through October 2003.(.pdf)
Table 19. Net disturbance projections - for all new wells minus new wells that are abandoned.(.pdf)
Table 20. Net disturbance projections - for all new wells minus abandonments of newly drilled wells and of old wells.(.pdf)
Data from tables 12-15 in the final RFD.(.xls)
A1-1.(.xls)
A1-2.(.xls)
A2-1.(.xls)
A2-2.(.xls)
A2-3.(.xls)
A2-4.(.xls)
A2-5.(.xls)
A2-6.(.xls)
A2-7.(.xls)