Archive for October, 2009

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O&G Operator Questioned About Safety
in Niobrara County

According to Docket 157-2009, WOGCC was holding a special hearing in regards to the allegations made by private citizens. Asher was to show cause why their operations at Bright and Beaver Hole Fields, in northern Niobrara County, were not in compliance with safety provisions and rules and regulations of sour gas wells.

29Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar’s Juggling Act on Oil Shale

Thought to contain many billions of barrels of oil trapped in shale, in the form of kerogen, the Green River leases have been the subject of controversy ever since the Interior Secretary, under George Bush, added “lease addenda” on six parcels on federal land, setting sweetheart royalty rates for the producers controlling the leases and expanding existing 160-acre research plots up to 5000 acres.

28Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Condensate Pipeline Proposed Out of Pinedale

Houston-based Ultra Resources, Inc. has proposed constructing a 42-mile pipeline to move condensate out of the Pinedale Anticline natural-gas field to a terminal located south of LaBarge, according to BLM officials.

25Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Secretary Salazar Seeks Review
of Oil Shale Contracts

He asks the department’s inspector general to look at amendments, potentially worth billions to shale leaseholders, finalized during the final days of the Bush administration. “Taxpayers deserve answers to serious questions about why these lease addenda were granted at the eleventh hour,” Salazar added in a news release.

21Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State One of Top Five to Add Wind Capacity in Q3

The Cowboy State added 170 MW of capacity from July through September, and, no doubt, the major wind farm developments of Duke Energy were instrumental in Wyoming hitting that high number.

21Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Hard Energy Realities Facing Western States Focus of Jackson Hole Gathering

Among the key policy elements to be tackled head on during next week’s conference — developing a blueprint to a cooperative agreement that represents a western energy policy dealing specifically with development, transmission, and the environment

20Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Siemens Wins large U.S. Wind Turbine Order
for Wyoming and Elsewhere

“These orders prove that the wind industry’s fundamentals are still strong, even in times of an economic downturn,” said Wolfgang Dehen, the chief executive of Siemens’ energy division.

19Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Editorial: Wind Tax Plan Should Include Incentives

Wyoming has a big challenge ahead: how to fairly tax the wind energy industry so a steady stream of revenue goes to the counties that host wind projects. It’s clearly a more complicated task than it was to determine the mineral severance tax system for oil, natural gas and coal.

15Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Developers Fear New State Taxes

Rather than creating a tax specifically on wind energy, lawmakers are considering a tax on all electrical generation, then providing tax credits or exemptions to all other forms of generation but wind. The purpose for this strategy is to fit within the state’s constitution, which prohibits singling out a particular industry for exclusive taxation.

13Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Oil & Gas Special Report –
Out With the Old, In With the New

The updated rule shifts the focus of oil and gas activities to the final product, regardless of the extraction technology used, meaning extraction of saleable hydrocarbons from oil sands, shale, coalbeds or other non-renewable natural resources is now considered a “producing activity.”

12Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Key Gas Industry Execs Call for Disclosure of “Fracking” Chemicals

At the energy conference, Pinkerton called the companies’ concerns that disclosure would put them at a disadvantage “silly” and said, according to a report in Natural Gas Intelligence, that “I’ve basically told them that this is not acceptable.”

10Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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At Issue: Wind Rights for Land Owners –
Two Perspectives

Most experts agree that whoever owns the surface of the land also owns the rights to develop wind resources. That’s as it should be. But the Legislature hasn’t addressed whether landowners can sever wind resources from their property, as state law allows for mineral resources.

9Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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DOE Announces New Private Sector Partnership
to Accelerate Renewable Energy Projects

TheFinancial Institutional Partnership Program will accelerate deployment of billions in lending by steamlining a set of standards designed to expedite DOE’s loan guarantee underwriting process and leverage private sector expertise and capital.

8Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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RES Americas Commissions Two Wyoming Wind Projects

The Broomfield, Colorado-based wind developer announced the start-up of the High Plains and McFadden Ridge I projects, located in Albany and Carbon Counties, respectively. Combined, they will bring online more than 127 megawatts of renewable resource capability to PacifiCorp.

7Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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