Thursday, July 17, 2025

Colorado Ballot Initiatives 88, 89 Pulled Today

Initiatives 88 and 89 have been officially withdrawn, Governor John Hickenlooper announced at the Colorado state capitol on August 4, 2014. Representative Jared Polis, the leader of the initiatives, reached a compromise with the governor earlier on the Aug. 4 deadline to submit signatures associated with the ballot measures. The initiatives had reportedly collected more than 200,000 signatures and Polis

Oil & Gas 360 Earnings Season

PDC Energy Accelerates its Liquids-Focused Growth Strategy with Marcellus Divestiture

This week PDC Energy (ticker: PDCE) announced the sale of its Marcellus shale assets for approximately $250 million to its Marcellus partner Mountaineer Keystone Energy, LLC. With the divesture of its approximate 131,000 net Marcellus acres, PDC’s focus now moves sharply onto two liquid rich plays—97,000 net acres in the Wattenberg Field in Colorado and 67,000 net acres in the

Whiting Petroleum's Production is Growing, Even without Pending Assets from Kodiak Oil & Gas

Whiting Petroleum (ticker: WLL) is set to become the largest E&P in the Williston Formation once its $6 billion acquisition of Kodiak Oil & Gas (ticker: KOG) is finalized before the end of fiscal 2014. Management teams on both sides limited comments on the acquisition in their respective Q2’14 conference calls, considering the transaction is not yet complete. KOG spent

DOE Approves First West Coast LNG Terminal

Yesterday, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it will allow LNG Development Co. (ticker: LLC) to export LNG from a terminal in Warrenton, Oregon, to countries without a Free Trade Agreement. The terminal is the first of its kind to be approved on the West Coast.  The terminal is still subject to environmental review and final regulatory approval from