WOGCC Tours Ultra Petroleum's Pinedale Anticline Operations Several staff members of the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission traveled to Pinedale to tour Ultra Petroleum’s operations. Those attending the field
tour: (Back row, L-R) WOGCC Joe
Scott and Mark Watson; Jim Ennis, Ultra Manager, Regional Production; Dan
Bulfer, Ultra Director, Production and Construction, Patrick Ash, Ultra VP, Development.
(Front row, L-R) WOGCC Frank Ingham and Sabrina Hamner; Ultra Erika
Tokarz, Senior Environmental and Regulatory Representative; Craig Blancett,
Ultra Director, Land; WOGCC Kimberly
Mazza; Jasmine Allison, Ultra Senior Permitting Analyst; Kent Rogers, Ultra VP
Drilling and Completions. As seen in the picture above, drilling
rigs are situated on cement slabs that have several planned wells lined up in a
row. Once the rig is finished drilling one well it will then walk to the
next well alleviating time to tear down and rig back up for each drill site.
The cement slabs work great over the life of the well reducing issues that can
arise in inclement weather. Rigs are electric, reducing air emissions. . Ultra’s primary focus for hosting the tour was to
show various aspects of their operations that have reduced time and
environmental impact. One such program is what they refer to as
SimOps. With this approach, Ultra runs both drilling and completions
operations on multiple wells simultaneously on the same pad |