Gas boom impacts Wamsutter

This overpass, completed in October 2003, carries heavy truck traffic between the north and south sides of Wamsutter. Photo by Bill Luckett/Casper Star-Tribune.

Gas leak causes evacuations

Firefighters work at the scene of a gas leak on Washington St. between 2nd and 3rd Streets on Tuesday morning in Casper. A gas line was struck while work was being done to relocate utilities for the Wyoming Medical Center's expansion. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune

Gas drilling means growth

Natural gas is flared at a gas recapture facility in theJonah natural gas field in Sublette County. Flaring is whena driller burns off contaminated gas while finishing newwells. Photo by Jeff Gearino, Star-Tribune.

The gas export tradeoff

Mark Gocke, Star-Tribune correspondent Workers construct a new pipeline in the Jonah natural gas field south of Pinedale earlier this month. Major pipeline construction and expansion projects are under way to enable shipment of more Wyoming gas to out-of-state markets.

Car strikes gas line in Casper

Flames leap from a car that caught fire after hitting a gas line near 12th and Beverly in Casper.

Parties reach gas plant accord

State and company officials walk near the site of Cimarex Energy Co.'s planned $100 million natural gas processing plant on Riley Ridge in Sublette County during a tour in June. Photo by Jeff Gearino, Star-Tribune.

Wyoming gains in pairing of wind, natural gas

Wyoming gains in pairing of wind, natural gas

Report says oil and gas drive state's economy

Helmerich & Payne Rig 310 driller Rick Cross mans the controls of the specialized, highly automated drilling rig in BP America's Wamsutter natural gas field earlier this summer. One in five Wyoming jobs is tied to the oil and gas industry, according to a new report. Photo by Dustin Bleizeffer, Star-Tribune.

Governor calls for truce between natural gas, coal

Roughnecks work on an EnCana natural gas well near Moneta earlier this month. Low prices for natural gas have significantly slowed the industry in Wyoming. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)

Making it happen

Halliburton's massive $30 million facility in Rock Springs opened in 2004 to serve southwest Wyoming's growing oil and gas industry. (Jeff Gearino/Star-Tribune)

Making it happen

What is hydraulic fracturing? (Courtesy/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States)