Encana Oil and Gas plans to build a facility to treat produced water from an oil and gas field west of Casper. Paul Ulrich with Encana told state lawmakers in Gillette on Tuesday his company will use state-of-the-art technology to clean up the water. Work on the new facility is expected to begin this summer. The facility would clean up some of the byproduct water produced by Encana's 280 or so gas wells in the area. Encana also proposes to re-inject produced water into an aquifer. The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission approved that plan in March. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is still reviewing the proposal. Encana plans to drill another 4,200 wells in the area as part of the Moneta Divide project.
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