Basin coal (incomplete list) James H. Miller Generating Station (Jefferson, Alabama) Flint Creek Power Plant – American Electric Power (Arkansas) Independence Power Plant - Entergy (Newark, Arkansas) White Bluff Power Plant - Entergy (Redfield, Arkansas) Plum Point Energy Station, NRG Energy (Osceola, Arkansas) Pawnee Station – Xcel Energy (Colorado) Comanche Station – Xcel Energy (Colorado) Rawhide Energy Station, Wellington, (Colorado) Robert W Scherer Power Plant – Georgia Power (Georgia) Newton Power Plant – Ameren, Newton, Illinois Joppa Generating Station, Vistra Energy - (Joppa, Illinois) Warrick Power Plant (Newburgh, Indiana) Jeffrey Energy Center (Kansas) Big Cajun II – (New Roads, Louisiana) Eckert Power Plant – (Lansing, Michigan) Erickson Power Plant – (Lansing, Michigan) Monroe Power Plant – Detroit Edison (Monroe, Michigan) St. Clair Power Plant – Detroit Edison – (East China, Michigan) Allen S. King Plant – Xcel Energy (Minnesota) Sherburne County (Sherco) Plant – Xcel Energy (Minnesota) Sikeston Power Plant (Sikeston, Missouri) Gerald Gentleman Station – Nebraska Public Power District (Nebraska) Omaha Public Power District – (Omaha, NE) (Nebraska City, Nebraska) GREC – Vinita, OK – (Chouteau, Oklahoma) J. Robert Welsh Power Plant – American Electric Power (Texas) Fayette Power Project – (La Grange, Texas) Harrington Station – Xcel Energy (Texas) Tolk Station – Xcel Energy (Texas) W. A. Parish Station – NRG Energy (Texas) Limestone Station – NRG Energy (Texas) Centralia Power Plant (Centralia, Washington) Edgewater Generating Station, Sheboygan, Wisconsin Dry Fork Station - Gillette, Wyoming Laramie River Station – (Wheatland, Wyoming) Brandon Generating Station – Manitoba Hydro (Brandon, Manitoba) Petroleum Oil and gas The Powder River Basin also contains major deposits of petroleum, including the giant Salt Creek Oil Field. The oil and gas are produced from rocks ranging from Pennsylvanian to Tertiary, but most comes from sandstones in the thick section of Cretaceous rocks. There is a recent resurgence in oil and gas production as a result of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. This resurgence is occurring mainly in the Wyoming portion of the basin, which is historically known as the source of the basin's oil. In 2009, a low of 38,000 barrels of oil per day were produced in the basin. That number has risen dramatically to 78,000 barrels per day in the first quarter of 2014. The Bell Creek Field is a Lower Cretaceous stratigraphic trap in the Muddy Sandstone. Discovered in 1967 by the Exeter Drilling Co. No. 33-1 Federal-McCarrell well, which found 27