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Mineral Occurrence & Development Potential Report

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Report Report - complete document Outside Cover Inside Cover Executive Summary Table of Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Appendix A

Tables 3-1 Oil & Gas Fields & Cumulative Production in the Rawlins RMPPA 3-2 Rawlins RMPPA Well Status on April 1, 2002 3-3 Summary of Data for All Deep Wells (>15,000 Feet) Drilled in Rawlins RMPPA 3-4 Secondary & Tertiary Recovery Units in the RMPPA 3-5 Rawlins RMPPA CBM Methane Unit Agreements 3-6 Locatable Minerals Deposits in the Rawlins RMPPA 3-7 Locatable & Salable Minerals Deposit Location Index 3-8 Locations of Decorative Stone 4-1 USGS Conventional Play Data for Southwestern Wyoming Province (037) 4-2 USGS Conventional Play Data for the Denver-Cheyenne Basin Province (039) 4-3 USGS Unconventional Play Data for Southwestern Wyoming Province (037) 4-4 USGS Unconventional Play Data for Denver-Cheyenne Basin Province (037) 4-5 USGS Conventional Play Resources for Southwestern Wyoming Province (037) 4-6 USGS Conventional Play Resources for Denver-Cheyenne Basin Province (039) 4-7 USGS Unconventional Play Resources for Southwestern Wyoming Province (037) 4-8 USGS Unconventional Play Resources for Denver-Cheyenne Basin Province (039) 4-9 Distribution of Federal Acreage Covered by Active Federal Oil & Gas Leases in the Rawlins RMPPA 4-10 Oil & Gas Development Potential Classifications Determined for the Rawlins RMPPA 4-11 Coalbed Gas Development Potential Classifications Determined for the Rawlins RMPPA 4-12 Estimates of Coalbed Gas Resources in the Rawlins RMPPA 4-13 Anticipated Drilling Related Disturbance, in Acres, for Rawlins RMPPA 4-14 Projections of Short-term (2010) & Long-term (2020) Drilling Activity with Associated Surface Disturbance 4-15 Wyoming Coal Production - 2000 4-16 Summary of Coal Development Potential Rawlins RMPPA 4-17 Designated Community Pits (Sand & Gravel) 4-18 Designated Common Use Pits (Sand and/or Gravel) 4-19 Designated Free-Use Pits (Sand and/or Gravel) 4-20 Authorized Negotiated Sale Pits (Various Commodities) 4-21 Estimated Gravel Requirements for State/County/Municipal Roads

Figures 1-1 General Location Map of the RMPPA 2-1 Physiographic Provinces in Relation to the Wyoming Basin 2-2 Stratigraphic Nomenclature Chart 2-3 Major Structual Elements of the Rawlins RMPPA 2-4 Diagrammatic Cross-section of Southeastern Wyoming 3-1 Trap Types 3-2 Number of New Wells Drilled, by Year, in the RMPPA 3-3 Well Depth Distributed for Wells Drilled Since 1990 in the RMPPA 3-4 Wells Drilled & Wells Abondoned in the RMPPA from 1980 to 2001 3-5 Wells Drilled for Oil & Gas 3-6 Yearly Total Gas Production & Production from Federal, Private, & State Lands in the Rawlins RMPPA 3-7 Yearly Total Oil Production & Production from Federal, Private, & State Lands in the Rawlins RMPPA 3-8 Total Producing Wells & Federal, Private, State Producing Wells in the Rawlins RMPPA, by Year 3-9 Deep Wells (>15,000 feet) & Deep Reservoir Potential 3-10 Non-CBM Federal Unit Agreements 3-11 CBM Unit Agreements 3-12 Typical CBM Well Production Profile 3-13 Wyoming Coalfields 3-14 Potential Mineral Resources 3-15 Locatable Minerals 3-16 Salable Minerals 4-1 Location of USGS Conventional Southwestern Wyoming Province Rock Springs Uplift, Cherokee Arch, & Subthrust Plays 4-2 Location of the USGS Conventional Southwestern Wyoming Province Basin Margin & Platform Plays 4-3 Location of the USGS Conventional Southwestern Wyoming Province Deep Basin Structure Play 4-4 Location of the USGS Conventional Denver-Cheyenne Basin Province Pierre Shale Sandstone Play 4-5 Location of USGS Conventional Denver-Cheyenne Basin Province Dakota Group Play 4-6 Location of USGS Conventional Denver-Cheyenne Basin Province Basin Margin Structural Play 4-7 Location of USGS Conventional Denver-Cheyenne Basin Province Permian-Pennsylvanian & Subthrust Structural Plays 4-8 Location of USGS Unconventional Southwestern Wyoming Province Cloverly-Frontier Basin-centered Gas Play 4-9 Location of USGS Unconventional Southwestern Wyoming Province Mesaverde Basin-centered Gas Play 4-10 Location of USGS Unconventional Southwestern Wyoming Province Lewis Basin-centered Gas Play 4-11 Location of USGS Unconventional Southwestern Wyoming Province Fox Hills-Lance Basin-centered Gas Play 4-12 Location of USGS Unconventional Southwestern Wyoming Province Fort Union Basin-centered Gas Play 4-13 Location of USGS Unconventional Southwestern Wyoming Province Isles & Lance Coalbed Gas Plays 4-14 Location of USGS Unconventional Southwestern Wyoming Province Almond Coalbed Gas Plays 4-15 Location of USGS Unconventional Southwestern Wyoming Province Fort Union CBM Play 4-16 Location of USGS Continuous-type Denver-Cheyenne Basin Province J Sandstone Deep Gas Play 4-17 Location of USGS Denver-Cheyenne Basin Province Fractured Niobrara-type Plays 4-18 Undiscovered Technically Recoverable Natural Gas Resources 4-19 Oil & Gas Occurrence Potential 4-20 Historical Spot Gas Prices for Northwest Pipeline at Opal, Wyoming, with Projections to 2020 4-21 Plot of Historical Wyoming Crude Oil Prices, with Projections to 2020 4-22 Location of Federal Oil & Gas Leases 4-23 Summary of Federal Oil & Gas Lease Sale Results, by Year, for the 1996-2001 Period, Rawlins RMPPA 4-24 Summary of the Total Amount of Bonus Money Received from Federal Oil & Gas Leasing & the Average Bid by Year, for the 1996-2001 Period, Rawlins RMPPA 4-25 Approved Seismic Notices of Intent to Conduct Geophysical operations (NOIs), by Year, on BLM Managed Surface in the Rawlins RMPPA 4-26 Non-coalbed Methane Development Potential Areas 4-27 Rawlins RMPPA, Coalbed Gas Wells & Their Status 4-28 Coalbed Methane Development Potential Areas 4-29 Coalbed Gas Production as a Percent of Total Natural Gas Produced in Wyoming A-1 Seismic Survey A-2 Federal Permitting Process A-3 Schematic for a Typical Single Well Pad Layout A-4 Typical CBM Well Pad Layout A-5 Rotary Drill Rig Diagram A-6 Wireline Log (left) Combined with other Formation Evaluation Data A-7 Typical Gas Well Production Facility A-8 Well Heads or (Christmas Trees): Gas Well (Left), Pumping Oil Well (Right) A-9 Pump Jack & Downhole Pump A-10 Oil Well Process Equipment A-11 Typical Production Curves for a CBM Well A-12 Completed & Abandoned Well Bore Diagrams