A new report compiled by the Bureau of Land Management says industry has more impediments to energy development in Wyoming’s Green River Basin than previously estimated, as more land holding natural gas has restrictions on drilling.
Lease restrictions on federal acreage in Green River Basin jumped to 50 percent from 37 percent in the new analysis. [...]

Federal land managers will issue a long-awaited report today detailing how much of the country’s onshore oil and gas are available for drilling — data that could shape the debate over land-use restrictions on energy companies seeking access to prized reserves.
The report comes three years after a study commissioned by a 2000 energy bill found [...]

About half the oil and more than a quarter of the natural gas beneath 99 million acres of federal land are off-limits to drilling, the Bush administration said Tuesday.
In a report sought by industry and ordered last year by Congress, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management said just 3 percent of the oil and [...]

Less than half the area on top of and below the Roan Plateau would be opened to natural gas drilling, according to a management plan released Thursday. The remainder would see protections designed to preserve wildlife, views and rare plants.
With the western flank of the Roan Plateau in view, Bureau of Land Management officials unveiled [...]

A provision in a House-passed energy bill would take steps to reduce the time energy companies say they waste waiting for the government to act on permits to drill or mine for oil, gas and coal.
Interior Department officials have said they are struggling to keep up with the growing mountain of applications for permits to [...]