Mealey's (November 21, 2022, 12:19 PM EST) -- CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has moved in Wyoming federal court seeking to dismiss an oil company’s complaint that it has the right to drill a traversing well through a tract of federal land belonging to the BLM without getting its permission because the surface owner has granted the oil company an easement. The BLM argues that the lawsuit is not ripe and that there is no longer a live controversy....