All Posts Tagged With: "COGCC"
COGCC Offers Storehouse of Fracking Information
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has added a new link to its website to provide the public with more information related to hydraulic fracturing, including access to documents, studies and relevant websites.
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Tracking Oil and Gas News …
>> Lease Auction Generates Nearly $9 Million
>> Salazar Seeks Ways to Boost Drilling, Alternative Fuels
>> State Fines Kinder Morgan for Drilling Without Permits
>> Battlement Mesa Citizens Want Health Risks Examined
>> COGA Enhances Online Presence
This Week’s Oil and Gas Developments
BLM to Revisit Oil Shale …
Companies Get Big Fines for Stormwater Runoff…
Elbert County Heats Up With Oil and Gas Fever …
Fracking Chemical Registry Not Enough Say Critics …
Texas Company Told to Cease and Desist in Colorado…
Local Governments Oppose COGCC Board Remake…
House Panel OKs Industry-Friendly Changes to Colorado
Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
HB-1223 would add two members from the gas and oil industry to the nine-person commission. The COGCC used
to have seven members, with five from the energy industry, before former Governor Ritter led a change in 2007 to give more representation to environmental stakeholders.
Important Updates From Around the State –
>> Weld County Energy Park Proposed
>> Uranium Mill Gets Final Regulatory Approval
>> Trinidad Wants Out of Lamar Coal Plant
>> Radioactive Water From Local Drilling Not Likely
>> New Well Casing Regulations Under Consideration
Encana Seeks New Drilling Permits Near Battlement Mesa
Staffers from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission are reviewing the permit application, which if approved would allow for the drilling of nine gas wells in the area.
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2010 Oil & Gas Activity in Colorado —
The Full Report
Despite continued low natural gas prices and diminished economic activity, the industry fared better during 2010 than that in many other states, including our closest neighbors, in terms of drilling permits issued, new wells started, and active drilling rigs.
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Colorado Issued Nearly 6,000 Drilling
Permits in 2010
Despite continued insistence from some industry officials that the revised drilling regulations were driving away business from the state, Colorado issued 5,996 oil and gas drilling permits last year — the third-highest total on record.
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API Backs Voluntarily Plan to Disclose
Fracking Ingredients
Industry leaders have been trying to fend off proposals for federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing and wage a PR battle against environmentalists who say the well-completion technique is risky. The Interior Department also is considering disclosure requirements for natural gas wells drilled on public lands.
16Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Feds Consider Disclosure of Fracking Fluids
on Public Lands
Fracking is a “hot and very difficult issue,” said Secretary Salazar … “So the question is really in my mind how we move forward in a way that can reassure the American public that what we are doing is in fact safe.”
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Horizontal Drilling Surges …. These and Other Oil & Gas Headlines Here
>> Horizontal Drilling Accelerates in State
>> Antero Drilling Hearing Now Set for January
>> Williams in Diversification Deal
>> Natural Gas Prices Pickup
>> New COGA Chair Says State Good for O&G, Not Great
>> Maverick Companies Expands in Grand Junction
Both Sides of Oil-Gas Debate Look to Hickenlooper
After months of campaign criticism of a sweeping set of drilling rules, talk of repealing the regulations or reopening the rulemaking process appears to have fizzled. Both environmentalists and oil and gas producers say they’re optimistic Gov.-elect John Hickenlooper will listen to their concerns about changing the regulations.
29Nov2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
West Slope — Well Density Key Topic at COGCC Meeting
The Garfield County commissioners have until Nov. 10, or so, to decide whether or not they want to formally intervene regarding Antero Resources’ plan for significantly increased gas-well density in the Silt Mesa area.
1Nov2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
We need to promote export terminals to liquify and ship natural gas to markets in Asia and Euroupe. The US ...
Natural Gas can be consumed so efficiently that the WATER can even be recovered from the combusted exhaust gases.
Going ...
Lack of funding is a serious obstacle for implementation of audit recommendations. Even small rebates will have little impact ...
Re: Natural gas generation wasn’t included in the final analysis but is generally assumed to emit about half as much ...
Disclosure MIGHT prevent pollution if there was a watchdog agency that ruled yes or no on particular chemicals before they ...
Having just read Tom Gray's article 'Fred Udo's bogus numbers' I get the feeling I haven't understood whats going on. ...
I agree with you kirsch. I knew this article had the stench of industry money as soon add I read ...
Can someone explain how disclosure prevents pollution? They can still release air toxins and they are still not held ...