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WPX Energy Sets Safety Mark in
Powder River Basin

Over the past nine years, WPX employees around Gillette have worked 2.1 million hours and driven 16.2 million miles without incurring a work-related injury that causes an employee to miss work. It is welcome news for an oil and gas industry in Wyoming that has seen too many accidents in recent years,

24Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Green Data Centers Lead Industry Sea Change

The data center industry consumes between 2% and 2.5% of the world’s total energy. Boulder, Colo-based Pike Research has issued a new report that explores global green data center trends with regional forecasts for market size and opportunities through 2016.

24Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Bird Deaths Haunt Wind Energy —
Interior Puts Forth a Plan

Environmentalists are facing a conundrum: To fight green energy projects that they see as detrimental to their cause or to work with the developers and the authorities to minimize damages. The U.S. Dept. of Interior has made some suggestions that it thinks will help alleviate bird deaths associated with wind energy.

23Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA Tightens Emission Regs for New Wells - But Gives Industry More Time to Comply

The new rules require drillers to capture emissions of certain air pollutants from new wells, but operators have been given more time to comply. The EPA says they can burn pollutants at the well head until the start of 2015.

19Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Survey: Expanded Drilling Fuels Higher Wages
for Oil and Gas Workers

On average, energy professionals reported a three percent increase in average compensation to $99,175 in 2011 from $96,588 the previous year. Those working on a rotational schedule earned more than $112,000 last year, a six percent increase from 2010.

18Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Power Line in Wyoming, Idaho
Draws Opposition

Some Idaho and Wyoming residents and environmental groups are expressing opposition to a proposed 1,100-mile long high-voltage power line designed to transmit 3,000 megawatts of mostly wind-generated electricity to fast-growing areas in the western U.S.

16Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Niobrara Update - Three Heavyweight Companies to Develop New NGL Pipeline to Serve Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg Basin

The new Front Range Pipeline will help producers in the DJ Basin maximize the value of their NGL production by providing reliable takeaway capacity and market access to the Gulf Coast, the largest NGL market in the US.

12Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Partnership to Put $380 Million in Encana’s
Jonah Field Gas Play

Houston-based Contango Oil and Gas Company is investing in the funding consortium that will target tight sandstone formations using shale gas completion technology. The Jonah field is the third-largest oil producing field in Wyoming and one of the largest single gas fields in the United States.

11Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New Energy MBA Programs Offered Through
UW College of Business

The University of Wyoming College of Business , in cooperation with UW’s School of Energy Resources and College of Law , is launching two new energy-focused tracks this fall in conjunction with its full-time MBA program.

9Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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True Oil Seeks to Drill in Bridger-Teton National Forest

True Oil has held leases to the area since 1978, said Tom Walker, a True Oil manager. But it wasn’t until recently that advanced technology allowed drilling to occur horizontally through shale using hydraulic fracturing, which is more conducive and cost-effective in the area, he said.

6Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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It’s What’s Inside That Counts —
A Green Approach to CNG Engine Lubrication

Universal Lubricants is a “closed loop” domestic manufacturer of recycled oil. It collects, re-refines, blends, packages and redistributes its own oil without ever losing guardianship within the chain-in an infinitely repeatable cycle. It’s latest product line targets natural gas vehicles.

4Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Niobrara Update — Colorado Agencies Schedule Series of Public Meetings on Oil and Gas

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission said in a Tuesday announcement that the meetings will provide information about the regulatory roles of state agencies and existing regulations governing oil and gas development.

4Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Tracking the Niobrara — Colorado Communities Ride the Oil and Gas Wave

Casper’s oil-driven economic activity and abundance is the kind that Greeley and Weld County in northern Colorado hope to see in the years ahead. Thanks to the emerging boom in the Niobrara shale formation, the region already is seeing lower county property taxes, added employment, revitalized roads and additional education funding.

2Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New Magazine Examines Issues and Answers
for Niobrara Shale Development

RM Media Group, publishers of Colorado Energy News and Wyoming Energy News websites, have announced the launch of Niobrara Report, a bimonthly digital magazine aimed at emerging industry and policy issues and practices in this important energy region.

1Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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