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Shell Exploration & Production Company re-entered the Rocky Mountain region with the acquisition of McMurry Energy’s interest in western Wyoming’s Pinedale Anticline in late 2001. Located in Sublette County’s Green River Valley, the Anticline and other nearby fields hold substantial natural gas reserves. SEPCo’s leasehold is predominately federal minerals underlying federal (Bureau of Land Management) surface.
SEPCo’s niche in the area is the production of deep, tight natural gas with vertical well depth averaging 13,800 feet. The company is actively implementing measures to minimize its impact on the environment. SEPCo is developing the gas resource in the area through the utilization of temporary production facilities that have reduced our incidence of well flaring during the completions process by 90-95 percent, multiple well pads, directional drilling, low-height facilities, natural paint/color, natural screening and retrofitted, low emission drilling rig engines.
The company operates 90 wells currently and plans an active drilling program over the foreseeable future.
SEPCo has an operations office in Pinedale with 36 full time staff. On an average day, 350 employees of service companies, vendors and contractors can be found working in the Pinedale office or on the Anticline. SEPCo also maintains a staff of 46 in Denver that provide technical support, services and management of the Rocky Mountain operations.
SEPCo and its employees have taken an active role in the economic development and social fabric of Pinedale and Sublette County. The company has implemented a community social investment program and is actively engaging stakeholders from a variety of interest perspectives in order to be a responsible community member. In June 2005, SEPCo initiated two $1,000,000 funds. The Tom Thorne Sage Grouse Conservation Fund will fund sagebrush habitat improvement and sage grouse research projects. The Upper Green River Sustainable Communities Endowment Fund will benefit the local communities into perpetuity.

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