BLM - Utah

Oil & Gas Program Overview

Utah Petroleum Association January 2014

Selected Current Topics Utah Energy

Development Action Team

Field Development NEPA Leasing and Drilling

Activity Air Quality Sage Grouse Hydrofracing

The Utah Energy Development Action Team will address:

Renewable Energy Resources: Wind, Solar, Geothermal & Biomass

Conventional Energy Resources: Oil & Gas, Coal

Unconventional Energy Resources: Oil Shale, Tar Sands

Major Energy Linear ROWs: Electrical & Pipelines

• Oil & Gas Project EISs / EAs

Uinta Basin

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ProjectLocator Map

New Existing1 West Tavaputs Plateau July 2010 626 120 57 79 N/A N/A 282 Greater Natural Buttes May 2012 3,675 1,484 2,191 594 1,052 2 / 17 2553 Gasco June 2012 1,298 575 - 198 316 2 / - 3234 River Bend Infill Jan. 2013 484 74 378 12 99 1 / - 265 Monument Butte Spring 2014 5,750 1,639 - 238 599 20 / 8 1876 Greater Chapita Wells Fall 2014 7,028 700 979 N/A N/A N/A 517 Little Canyon 2015 510 362 - 65 67 2 / - 528 Hill Creek 2015 137 - 110 N/A 34 N/A 8

19,508 4,954 3,715 1,186 2,167 27 / 25 930

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9/30/2013Number of Protests

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Utah BLM - Applications for Permit to Drill (Federal & Indian)

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Other Energy Activity

- Pending 2,106 Acre Tar Sands Lease Application for the Asphalt Ridge Project – Sale Planned for 2014

- Existing 160 Acre Oil Shale R&DD Lease for the ENEFIT Project (Expandable up to 5,120 Acres)

Also processing a Utility Corridor ROW on Public Land (for Power, Gas & Water) as a Connected Action for ENEFIT’s proposed development of oil shale on Private Land

Oil-shale andTar-sand Areas

Air Quality

Regional Ozone & Air Quality Related Values (AQRVs)

Uinta Basin Winter Ozone

Air Resource Management Strategy Monitoring, Modeling, Mitigation Interagency Effort

Key Issues

Response to Issues

Leasing Reform

Instruction Memorandum 2010-117

5/17/10

Parcel specific NEPA analysis

Longer lead time but more “Certainty”

and “Predictability”

Master Leasing Plans (Moab in progress)

Rotation of Lease Sales by District

Office Green River, Canyon Country, Color Country, West Desert

Sage Grouse

Reclaimed Hawk Springs oil and gas well pad—Rich Co Utah

Habitat Protection & Enhancement

Land Use Plan Amendments/ EIS

Hydraulic Fracture Well Stimulation (“Hydro-Fracing”)

Proposed Rule Public Comment Period Just ClosedOver 1 million comments received

Requires Public Disclosure of Chemicals Used

Improves Assurance of Well Bore IntegrityConfirms Water Management Plan is in Place to

Handle “Flow Back” Fluid

Recent Revisions to Draft

Public Disclosure of Chemicals After Frac CompletedOperator Certification that Frac Fluid Complies with

federal, state, Tribal and Local Laws & Regulations

Thank You

Juan PalmaUtah State Director

Bureau of Land Management(801) 539-4010