Udall is fighting for a 25% national RES, a carbon tax, wind tax credits, LNG exports and more nuclear. Gardner wants easier permitting to drill on federal lands and Alaska’s outer shelf, wind tax credits, LNG exports and more nuclear. Incumbent Democrat Senator Mark Udall and his Republican challenger U.S. Congressman Cory Gardner are engaged in a battle for Udall’s
The Utica is growing. Royal Dutch Shell (ticker: RDS.B) successfully drilled two Utica wells 100 miles northeast of the nearest producer in the play, the company announced in a press release on September 3, 2014. The wells, located in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, not only extend the sweet spot of the play, but are “comparable to the best publically announced thus
Yesterday, Governor John Hickenlooper announced the members of a statewide task force that will craft recommendations to help minimize land use conflicts that can occur when siting oil and gas facilities near homes, schools, businesses and recreational areas. “The governor created the task force as part of a compromise to avoid a divisive and costly campaign fight this fall over
On Monday, U.S. crude oil, reacting to a less worrisome geopolitical climate in Iraq and Ukraine, fell to its lowest level since January at $92.66 for October delivery. Monday’s “biggest decliners in the S&P 500 were oil drilling and exploration companies, which rely on high oil prices to justify pulling crude oil out of remote parts of the planet. Newfield
CAMAC Energy Inc. (ticker: CAK) is a Houston-based oil and gas company engaged in the exploration of offshore oil and gas leases in deep water Nigeria. The company is completing two separate wells in the Oyo Field and expects to generate a total of 14 MBOPD. CAMAC’s Growth CAK has methodically built up its position offshore Nigeria over the past
