Archive for June, 2010

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Oil and Gas Dispatches

>> SAMSON OIL & GAS IN GOSHEN COUNTY DEAL
>> REX ENERGY BUYS DJ BASIN ACREAGE
>> STATE GROUSE TEAM ADDS PROTECTED AREAS
>> VOYAGER IN LARAMIE COUNTY - DJ BASIN PLAY

30Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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U.S. Business Leaders Call for Revolution in Energy Technology Innovation

This isn’t just another clean energy advocacy group. Members range from Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Chad Holliday, former CEO of DuPont, to GE’s Jeff Immelt and Lockheed Martin’s former chair, Norm Augustine. The key, they say, is reforming and strengthening U.S. investment in energy innovation
— the most critical element to securing America’s future.

28Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Court Rejects Challenge to Wyoming Drilling

The Biodiversity Conservation Alliance and others claimed that the bureau wrongly refused to consider their alternative for drilling, which would cluster wells geographically and maintain open space.

23Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Time Running Out for Company to Cap Methane Wells

If Wyoming Consolidated Gas doesn’t meet some financial and operational standards by the July 1st deadline, state regulators plan to use its reclamation bonds to pay for the process.

23Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Industry “Road Show” in Casper Today

Wind energy developers are hosting “wind road shows” as they court public opinion. Today’s event in Caper will be at the McMurry Training Center from 4:30-7 p.m

23Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Industry Says Wyoming Wind Tax Tops in Rockies

The tax figure comparisons are startling. For example, a 66-turbine wind farm producing 99 megawatts and costing $247.5 million to build would pay about $37.6 million in taxes in Wyoming over 20 years. The same wind farm would pay $8.4 million in taxes in Colorado, the state with the lowest tax burden for wind, according to the study.

23Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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API’s Gerard: Drilling Moratorium Could Make
Bad Situation Worse

An extended moratorium wouldn’t reduce our need for oil and natural gas. It would only force us to import more because idle rigs can move to operate in other countries’ waters. It would take months or longer to bring them back once they are gone.

21Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Clean Energy Economy for Five Rocky Mountain States — A New Analysis

Wyoming trails badlly in every major category — in clean energy business, job creation and investment –and the Cowboy State ranks only 49th for public funding from competitively-awarded federal stimulus grants by the Department of Energy

17Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Oil Executives Tell Committee That BP Spill Is
An Aberration

In a moment of Capitol Hill drama reminiscent of the grilling of tobacco industry executives in 1994, the oil company officials were summoned by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to justify offshore drilling and explain how their safety practices differed from BP’s.

15Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind, Solar Demonstrations Offered to Rural Families

The wind and solar project that will help power the ARLC will be unveiled 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 15. The public is invited. The ARLC is at 2011 Fairgrounds Road in Casper.

13Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Sets Rental Rate for Solar Plant Sites

The BLM announcement was met with applause from the Solar Energy Industries Association. “While oil and gas companies have received more than 74,000 permits to operate on federal lands in the past two decades, utility-scale solar developers have received zero,” Rhone Resch, president of the association, said in a prepared statement.

11Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Lost Cabin Gas Plant Remains Idle After Fire

Production has not resumed at ConocoPhillips’ Lost Cabin natural gas processing facility in Fremont County since an early morning explosion and fire on June 1. The explosion and fire caused severe damage. The State did give the okay for continued CO2 venting from the location when it does re-start.

10Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Commission Approves Regulations
for Hydraulic Fracturing

Language in the regulation means the industry won’t have to disclose the proprietary chemicals used in the process, still, “This ruling was the right thing to do,” said Western Resource Advocates staff attorney Dan Heilig. “One look at the Gulf of Mexico is proof that things don’t always turn out the way drilling companies expect.”

9Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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An “Oil City” Fears for Its Future

In recent weeks, some club members’ smiles have been replaced by more fraught expressions as worries have grown not only about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but also about the potential blowback to Casper’s No. 1 industry.

7Jun2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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