Western Slope
Garfield County Set for Gas-Well ‘Intervention’
But the “intervention,” as it is formally called, would strictly be aimed at Antero’s request to be allowed to drill wells at a higher density than currently is permitted, in an area that apparently is outside the boundaries of Battlement Mesa.
2Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Williams Challenges GarCo Authority on Cuttings
The energy company contends the county requirement runs contrary to COGCC rules allowing burial of the cuttings on site if they don’t exceed state standards for contaminants. It argues that state authority preempts county authority in the case.
17Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Drilling Activity to Remain Flat in Garfield County for 2010
According to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Garfield County produced more than 390 billion cubic feet (bcf) of natural gas through the month of October, 2009, compared to more than 520 bcf for all of 2008.
11Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
BLM Gives OK for Drilling Near Rulison Blast Site
In its environmental assessment of the Noble drilling plan, the agency said both the state and the DOE are adequately addressing issues surrounding the natural gas development near Project Rulison. It will, however, ask the Energy Department to provide long-term monitoring of one of the proposed wells.
22Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Geothermal Part of Colorado Lease Sale
for First Time
The February 11th auction includes one parcel of 799 acres with subsurface Federal mineral rights which will be offered for geothermal development in Chaffee County, near the Mt. Princeton Hot Springs Resort west of Buena Vista.
21Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Western Slope O&G Update –
>> WILLIAMS TO EXPAND PICEANCE BASIN OPERATIONS
Company upping rig count from eight to 12 in 2010.
>> COGCC: BATTLEMENT HEALTH STUDY NOT PRESSING
Neslin says it’s too early to commit to baseline health study.
>> NO AGREEMENT ON ROAN GAS DEVELOPMENT
Another meeting is planned prior to January 15.
EnCana, COGCC Defend Investigation of Seep Near Silt
The company’s researchers and consultants have taken samples from eight locations, installed 23 monitoring wells and sampled water on Lisa Bracken’s property, much of it on a quarterly basis, EnCana spokesman Doug Hock said.
20Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Hub Connection Pipeline Now in Use
Phil Wright, the President of Williams’ gas pipeline business, says the completion of the Colorado Hub makes it possible for the company to connect supplies from Colorado’s Piceance Basin with markets in the western United States.
12Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Ritter Holding on to Severance Tax Grant Funds –
Oil & Gas Communities May Lose Millions
The grants being held back originate from taxes on energy production and are supposed to help communities pay for additional services required by oil and gas workers. Some towns say they will urge Ritter to use federal stimulus funds not yet spent to replace any diverted severance tax funds.
30Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Drilling Permits to Drop Nearly 40% in ‘09
3,360 drilling applications had been approved by August 6th, and the agency expects that number to climb to 5,000 by the end of the year. Still, it’s almost a 40% drop from the record 8,027 drilling permits approved in 2008. What’s more, the COGCC report also says the number of active drilling rigs has dropped 60% from the 2008 peak.
2Sep2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
From “Bridge Fuel” to Major Player in
New Energy Economy
Natural gas is getting new found respect from the Ritter Administration, as evidenced by what it’s head of economic development told a Grand Junction business audience on Monday. The Governor sees natural gas as a clean source of power for electricity generation in the New Energy Economy. West Slope Republicans remain skeptical.
1Sep2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Activists to Meet With Garfield County Officials
on Gas Drilling
The impact of gas drilling on Garfield County communities and citizens will be the activists’ main discussion topic with the commissioners, and they are bound to cite the recent EPA findings that hydraulic fracturing used in gas drilling in central Wyoming may have polluted the wells of area ranchers.
31Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
West Slope Editorial –
Release Federal Gas Funds
The money comes from oil and gas drilling that occurred on the former Naval Oil Shale Reserve — now generally known as the Roan Plateau — after the area west of Rifle was transferred to the Bureau of Land Management in 1997 and before new leasing for the top of the plateau was approved by the BLM last year.
9Aug2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Piceance Basin Gets Water Quality Database
The USGA-administered repository site “is a boon for anyone with an interest in understanding water quality in this (booming energy) region—landowners, energy companies, regulators, and public officials,” said the president of the West Divide Water Conservancy District, Sam Potter.
5Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued-
Clean Energy Battered, Not Broken
A cascade of events have discouraged such folks – to the degree that many are taking a silver-lining perspective on the clouds gathering around attempts to transform the energy industry in Colorado and beyond.
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Mr. Hartman says most Coloradans support a transition to renewable energy? First I disagree that most Coloradans support this. ...
They will never learn. It's been that way for a hundred years. Boom and bust. The extractors come. They take. ...