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Feds Punt on Leadership Over Fracking Rules, Experts Say

Compared to existing state regulations, the federal rule is in the “middle of the pack,” said Bruce Baizel, senior staff attorney at Earthworks, a nonprofit that advocates for responsible oil and gas drilling. “It’s not a model leader but it’s also not stepping back either.”

21May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Gaining a Stake in The Niobrara Shale:
Is it the Next Bakken?

Conference producers say the Tight Oil Niobrara Congress & Gala Dinner 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Denver on Thursday will be the first dedicated forum combining geological and completions disciplines to address how operators can unlock the play’s potential within an economically viable framework.

19May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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A Tale of Two Conferences — The World Renewable Energy Forum and DUO Oil and Gas Collide in the Mile High City

Speaking at the World Renewable Energy Forum in Denver today, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu called on Congress to extend tax credits that support the nation’s alternative energy industry. Next door, they talked unconventional shale and jobs.

17May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Speed Up Permitting Process for Public Lands Urges Leading Oil and Gas Trade Group

The president and CEO at the American Petroleum Institute said the “shale revolution” is providing jobs and energy security to the United States. Instead of regulating the process, Washington should make it easier for energy companies to move forward.

14May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Regulator: No Fines Even if Workers Caused Gas Well Blowout

Well owner Chesapeake Energy Corp. and drill rig-owner Trinidad Drilling Ltd., won’t face any citations for the blowout, which didn’t cause any injuries but vented up to 2 million cubic feet of explosive gas and 31,500 gallons of drilling fluid into the air and around the drill site near Douglas, Wyoming.

14May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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WEA Study Cites Lost Benefits From Delayed Utah, Wyoming Projects

Outstanding projects delayed for more than three years in the two states represent 22,835 proposed wells, or about 1,631 wells/year, the study said. “Federal government delays to these projects are preventing the creation of 64,805 jobs,
$4.3 billion in wages, and $14.9 billion in economic impact every year,” it said.

10May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Previewing the NIOBRARA REPORT

The E-zine launches later this month with the premiere edition being delivered to subscriber inboxes. If you haven’t already signed up for your copy, click the banner to the right to receive every bimonthly edition for free. In the meantime, here are some excerpts from the issue …

9May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Suspension of Massive Offshore Wind Project a Market Indicator

“An analysis of current conditions indicates that a viable commercial market in the United States is still farther out, as much as three or four years away, at the earliest,” the companies said, making further investment impractical.

9May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Floats New Draft Rules to
Regulate ‘Fracking’

The plan from Interior’s Bureau of Land Management also contains requirements on oil-and-gas well integrity to verify that fluids from the fracking process aren’t escaping into nearby water supplies, and requirements for management of large volumes of so-called flowback water.

7May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Unsafe Ozone Level in Southwestern Wyoming as Gas Booms

The EPA included the Upper Green River Basin in its list of areas nationwide exceeding an ozone standard set in 2008 during the administration of President George W. Bush. Wyoming until today was the only state where all counties had met the federal ozone limit.

2May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Legal Challenges Force Delay in Wind
Farm Project

Wasatch Wind said the delay comes because numerous legal challenges to the project by the Northern Laramie Range Alliance have made it impossible to start generating power on that site by October, forcing the company to break a power purchase agreement with Rocky Mountain Power.

30Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Congressional Trio: Big Government Holding Up American Energy Production

H.R. 4381, Planning for American Energy Act would require the Secretary of the Interior to develop a strategic plan every four years … and that plan would have to include oil, natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, oil shale, and minerals necessary for energy development.

25Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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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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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