Coloradans living near oil and natural gas development are most likely to support this activity, while the industry’s biggest opponents tend to live in areas with little to no production, according to a new study. Key findings: (1) Strong opposition to #fracking is mostly found in places where there is little to no drilling activity.
Read More...Occidental Petroleum Corp is soliciting bids for oil and gas properties in Wyoming and Colorado acquired when it purchased Anadarko Petroleum, hoping the assets will bring up to $700 million, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Occidental offered roughly 200,000 acres in the Denver-Julesburg Basin of Wyoming and Colorado that produce $66 million a
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. A Colorado health agency, under the thumb of a fractivist governor, is using air quality modeling, with no connection to reality, to trash oil and gas. What do you call a “study” that includes this? Two aspects of the modeling need to be understood, and they are 1.
Read More...The number of rigs working in the Lower 48 U.S. states last week rose by a single rig following three consecutive weeks of falling numbers, data from Baker Hughes, a GE company reveals. For the week ended June 28, 931 rigs were working in the Lower 48, up a lone rig from one week earlier,
Read More...Less than a month after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed into law legislation overhauling how the state regulates the oil and natural gas industry, its effects are already being seen in development curtailments that the bill’s proponents promised wouldn’t happen. During the long and somewhat tumultuous debate over SB-181, its supporters were consistent in their
Read More...Tallgrass Energy Wednesday announced the Hereford Project, roughly 30 miles of new pipeline, plus expanded capacity on the Pony Express system, Kallanish Energy reports. The new project is designed to support crude oil production in northern Weld County, Colorado, near the Wyoming-Colorado border. Sufficient interest arose during Pony Express’ existing open season for expansion capacity from
Read More...... … … Fractivism is anything but grassroots. Rather, it is funded and orchestrated Big Green, Inc. and the Institute for Energy Research is documenting it all. Last year, as readers might recall, IER launched Big Green, Inc. to began exposing the under-the-radar funders that underwrite the anti-American energy movement and its anti-fracking ballot measures,
Read More...The Colorado House is holding its first hearing this afternoon on the state’s oil and gas bill. The “Boulder Bill” passed through the Senate last week while a blizzard effectively shut down the rest of the Denver Metro area. As a quick recap, the bill would drastically change many regulations governing the oil and gas industry
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