Tag: Api
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No sale on BLM mineral lease highlights industry complaints of regulatory overload
The Bureau of Land Management received zero bids on more than 20,000 acres offered in an oil and gas lease sale in early January in Jackson, Moffat and Garfield counties. The result highlighted how federal mineral leasing policies collide with state regulations industry leaders said suppress production. The auction drew no interest from the two…
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Colorado Oil and Gas Association selects Lynn Granger as new president and CEO
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Lynn Granger, the Colorado regional director of the American Petroleum Institute, will become President and CEO of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association. Granger will officially start in January and replace departing President and CEO Dan Haley. Granger spent more than two decades working in energy policy and strategic communications leadership, including five years in…
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Oil and gas industry to push for policy changes under Trump administration
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The oil and gas industry sees an opening to reverse “heavy handed mandates” with the incoming Trump administration, arguing that last week’s elections showed that Americans want the widest possible portfolio of energy sources — not “government mandates and restrictions.” Meanwhile, environmentalists are gearing up for a fight. In Colorado, oil and gas industry leaders said…
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Colorado oil production sees uptick since COVID19 pandemic, but industry is wary of regulations
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Though oil production in Colorado has inched up this year, the state has still not recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic — and the industry is blaming regulations as the culprit. Colorado oil producers said changing regulations has whipsawed the industry and they are struggling to cope…
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Oil & gas industry supporters rally at Colorado state Capitol against proposal to end new drilling
Representatives of Colorado’s oil and gas industry, along with hundreds of supporters, gathered on the west steps of the state Capitol on Wednesday for a rally opposing a proposal to ban all new oil and gas drilling by 2030. Senate Bill 24-159 is scheduled to be heard on Thursday in the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. Dan…
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Report claims outdoor recreation money can ease pain of moving away from oil and gas
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Oil and gas extraction in Colorado is both undesirable and fiscally unnecessary, environmental activists said on Tuesday, citing a report that claimed money from the outdoor recreation industry can ease the economic pain of transitioning away from fossil fuels. ”The outdoor recreation economy is significant in Colorado, and provides an alternative, though not full replacement,…
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A conversation with the American Petroleum Institute on Colorado’s energy future
Colorado is facing the loss of more than 350,000 jobs and a cumulative $7.1 trillion in economic activity by 2030 if the federal government resumes its ban on hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas production, according to a new economic analysis from the American Petroleum Institute. President Joe Biden banned new oil and gas leasing…