All Posts Tagged With: "Piceance Basin"
Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Shale Gas Development — A Special Report From the Bipartisan Policy Center
The in depth study articulates opportunities associated with newly accessible and economically recoverable domestic shale gas resources, and highlights the critical need to develop those resources efficiently and responsibly.
23Jan2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Williams Cos. Splits Off Exploration, Production
Subsidiary WPX
Williams’ exploration and production segment drills for natural gas and natural gas liquids in the Piceance Basin on the West Slope, the Bakken Shale oil play of North Dakota, the Powder River basin in Wyoming and Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania.
2May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Will Colorado’s Latest Energy Boom Skip
Western Slope?
BJ Services said last month it is moving two hydraulic-fracturing crews to other fields, and a major Piceance Basin player, Exxon Mobil, said the company has “reduced our drilling tempo at Piceance, due to the business environment.”
11Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Drilling Within City Limits: An Inside Job
When Encana started tapping formations inside the city limits of Erie, Colorado, it took some creative relationship-building to make it a win-win situation for both the town and company. Excerpted from Solutions E-Magazine
8Nov2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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
West Slope Area Holds Potential for Shale Gas
The question at hand involves Mancos Shale. The formation surfaces in places such as Grand Junction but is buried deeply in much of the Piceance Basin. The Mancos sits below the Mesaverde Group, which contains the sandstone that companies have successfully been drilling in for natural gas for decades.
8Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State’s Oil and Gas Activity Heats Up
All 14 parcels offered by the BLM at Thursday’s lease sale were sold, generating $2,038,560, or an average of $207 per acre. A Mesa County parcel received the highest per-acre bid at $1,090 for 157 acres north of Collbran. In total, Colorado is on pace to issue 6,500 permits this year, the second most ever.
13Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Delta Sells Non-Core Assets in Colorado and Elsewhere
The Denver-based oil and gas company’s $130 million deal with Wapiti includes all of its 31% working interest in the Garden Gulch field in the Piceance Basin and DJ Basin fields in Weld County.
27Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Williams Cuts Natural Gas Production on West Slope
Tulsa-based Williams Cos. said its Piceance Basin natural-gas production was reduced over the past 12 months by 11 percent to 632 million cubic feet a day in the first quarter of 2010.
6May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Reasons for State’s Drilling Slump Depend on Who (and WHERE) You Ask
One can understand why energy stakeholders on the West Slope are particularly sensitive to the drilling regulations issue. In fact, the divide in thinking on the subject between the eastern and western halves of the state seems at times nearly as large as the mountains and passes that geographically divide Colorado.
3Mar2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
EnCana Achieves Strong 2009 Operating Performance Despite Economy
The Calgary-based energy giant achieved relatively robust 2009 financial and operating performance during a major economic downturn and a year when benchmark natural gas prices were the lowest level in seven years.
11Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Expert: 95 Percent of Oil, Gas Wells are Fractured
“There’s nothing in frac’ing fluids that’s any more dangerous than the hydrocarbons we’re producing,” she declared, adding that the chemicals mixed into the fluids are in “very small volumes” compared to the gas produced.
7Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
EnCana Closes on Transaction to Split into
Two Distinct, Independent Companies
The company announced completion of the transaction to split into two separate energy companies: Cenovus Energy Inc., an integrated oil company and EnCana Corporation, a pure play natural gas organization.
30Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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