During this year’s session, the Colorado legislature passed HB-1242 “Water Conservation In Oil And Gas Operations” which is meant to encourage water conservation in the state’s oil and gas industry. The bill requires operators to reduce freshwater use and report… Read More ›
Piceance Basin
GarCo paid frackademic Timothy Considine $65K for O&G propaganda
Garfield County Commissioners paid $65,000 to Timothy Considine, president of Natural Resource Economics, Inc, in Wyoming, for a report that claims oil and gas companies operating in Garfield County last year spent an additional $2.8 million to comply with Colorado… Read More ›
Rumors circulate around $2.5B Caerus sale
Reuters is reporting that as of the end of December 2021, Caerus Oil and Gas is considering a sale that could value the company at over $2.5 billion, inclusive of the company’s debt. U.S. gas producer Caerus explores $2.5 bln… Read More ›
Jordan Cove Project now just a faded memory
In the works for well over a decade the Jordan Cove Project, has been dealt a series of setbacks during the past year. The proposed pipeline would have spanned 229 miles through southwest Oregon, ending up at a proposed liquefied… Read More ›
Jordan Cove Project circles the drain
Pembina Pipeline Corp, the Canadian company behind the proposed Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in Oregon has downgraded the financial value of the project and no longer can predict if the project will move forward. Last week… Read More ›
Oregon denial of Jordan Cove upheld by feds
Oregon’s Coastal Zone Management Act denial of Jordan Cove LNG Project upheld by federal government Decision marks yet another blow against the proposed fracked gas project and LNG terminal in Southern Oregon Washington, DC — The proposed Jordan Cove LNG… Read More ›
Terra to abandon pending permits in Battlement Mesa
Permit applications of sites within the PUD acquired from Ursa will no longer be pursued Garfield County’s oil and gas liaison Kirby Wynn announced that Terra Energy Partners LLC intends to abandon all pending permits for oil and gas wells… Read More ›
Legal agreement blocks fracking on West Slope BLM leases
Legal agreement blocks fracking on 53 Oil Leases, requires climate review for management of 2 million acres in Colorado Comes ahead of Biden’s promised leasing ban Denver, CO — Conservation groups finalized an agreement with the Bureau of Land Management… Read More ›
The view from GasLand
2020 is my 24th year living in western Colorado. When I moved to Silt in 1996, the town was not surrounded by natural gas wells. With 40-acre well spacing, drilling was something that happened up the country, far from human… Read More ›
Breaking news: Terra buys Ursa for $60 million
From Denver Business Journal: Houston energy company buys Ursa Resources business in $60 million deal A major Piceance Basin player snapped up the assets in a bankruptcy court sale. The biggest Western Slope Natural gas producer is buying Ursa Resources’… Read More ›