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Regional Update — Shale Priming The West’s Energy Industry

France energy giant Total SA is joining the domestic shale rush with a $2.3 billion investment in Chesapeake Energy. Meanwhile, China Petrochemical Corp. is ponying up $2.5 billion in a joint venture with Devon Energy to explore oil and gas projects from the Niobrara in Colorado to the Tuscaloosa Marine shale in Alabama and Mississippi.

5Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Senators Want to Speed Up Shale Development

U.S. Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming introduced his American Energy and Western Jobs Act Thursday, with fellow Republican senators Mike Enzi, also from Wyoming (pictured at right) and Mike Lee of Utah as co-sponsors. The bill seeks to remove barriers to onshore oil and gas production, including by offering more leases for oil shale projects.

23May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar to Review Bush Administration
Oil Shale Rules

“Oil shale is an important resource for the U.S.,” said the Secretary of the Interior. “We need to move forward and examine the possibility of developing oil shale as part of our national portfolio, but we need to do it in a smart way.” The Bush-driven rules changed the BLM’s oil-shale plans in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

16Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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GAO Releases Report on Oil Shale - Water Nexus

One of the report’s recommendations includes establishing comprehensive baseline conditions for groundwater and surface water quality, including their chemistry, and quantity in the Piceance and Uintah Basins to aid in the future monitoring of impacts from oil shale development in the Green River Formation.

30Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Landowners in SE Wyoming Get Lowdown
on Niobrara Play

One of the seminar’s speakers, Attorney Matt Romsa, said one question he’s been asked several times in the last eight months is what happens if a landowner doesn’t sign an oil and gas lease? “You’re obviously not obligated to sign a lease,” he said. But that has consequences …

12Nov2010 | admin | 15 comments | Continued
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A Solution to Oil Shale’s Big Negatives?

The Seattle-based private company claims its in-situ technique can produce useable oil from oil shale, without the two downsides associated with the process: huge water requirements and C02 emissions.

4Nov2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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The Risky Race to Exploit Oil Sands and Shales

With astonishing speed, U.S. oil companies, Canadian pipeline builders, and investors from all over the globe are spending huge sums in an economically promising and ecologically risky race to open the next era of hydrocarbon development.

1Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Independent Study: Oil Shale Is a Poor
Energy Source

As the nation looks for new sources of fuel, one option being considered is oil shale. Opponents, however, claim in a new report released Monday that oil shale is no solution at all because it takes nearly as much energy to produce as it yields.

3Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feds to Take More Measured Approach to Oil and
Gas Leasing This Year

Concerns and conflict over the first round of federal oil shale leases in the Rockies have made the government more deliberate in the second round, a federal official said Friday.

7Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Oil, Natural Gas Industries Can Boost Jobs

Then there are those “green” jobs that everybody is talking about. America’s oil and gas industry is already creating them. Between 2000 and 2008, the industry invested $58.4 billion in greenhouse gas-mitigating technologies — more than was invested by either the federal government or by all other U.S.-based private industries combined.

8Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Viewpoint: Energy: Past, Present, Future Needs

The United States now is sitting on the world’s largest known source of fossil fuel. It is called the Green River Formation situated astride the Green River running through Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. It has been determined that several centuries worth of oil shale is deposited there.

1Dec2009 | 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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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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Feds Want More Time to Respond to
Oil Shale Lawsuits

The Federal government is seeking another extension of a deadline to respond to lawsuits filed that contest the opening of nearly 2 million acres of public land in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah for oil shale development.

28Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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