October 29, 2009
posted on: Oct 29, 2009
IPAMS Meetings and Announcements
District Meeting with Rep. Heinrich (D-NM)
IPAMS is meeting with New Mexico Congressman Martin Heinrich on November 9th at 2:00 p.m. MST in his Albuquerque office. During the meeting, we will discuss House energy legislation, taxes, public lands access, fracking, and other issues. Please contact Spencer Kimball if you can attend.
IPAMS Service and Supply Sector Outlook: What We Have Overcome and What Lies Ahead?
IPAMS will host a featured discussion on the Service and Supply Sector Outlook on November 17, 2009 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Westin Tabor Center. A networking cocktail reception will follow.
Industry experts Will Matthews with Ensign United States Drilling, Kevin Bailey with Cameron International and Randy Yeager with Halliburton Energy Services will be leading a discussion on important and timely topics such as:
-Hydraulic fracturing fluid disclosure
-Wellhead vendor consolidation
-Consequences of decreased activity in the Rockies in 2009
-How to lower long term costs for while providing work commitments and ROI for service providers
-Impact of legislative proposals
Please click here to register for this event.
Contact Becca Ness with any question regarding this event.
IPAMS Calendar Sponsorship Opportunity
The IPAMS yearly calendar is a great, cost-effective way to highlight your company’s active involvement in IPAMS and environmentally responsible development of oil and natural gas in the Intermountain West. Company logos are visible 365 days of the year on the IPAMS calendar and reach a wide variety of industry, government and public interests.
There are only two pages left available for sponsorship. For more information on IPAMS calendar sponsorships, please contact Jon Haubert.
Click here to view last year’s calendar.
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Other Upcoming Meetings
* Tax Committee – November 5th at 2:30 p.m.
* Utah Basin Advisors Network – November 10th at 10:00 a.m.
* WRAP Phase III Wind River Projections – November 10th at 1:30 p.m.
Agendas are available for upcoming meetings at http://www.westernenergyalliance.org/advocacy/. All meetings unless otherwise indicated are Mountain time, and at IPAMS and via teleconference.
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The West
Western electrical grid seen as lacking
published in: Billings Gazette/Casper Star-Tribune on: 10/27/2009 by: Dustin Bleizeffer
Western states seem to have a wide portfolio of energy resources and the consumer markets to better meet the ambitions of both energy-producing states and energy-importing states. What’s missing is a strategy for beefing up and modernizing the Western electrical grid to make those connections, according to industry officials. “We can’t even connect the dots on a piece of paper. It’s like the weather – everybody talks about it, but nobody ever does anything about it,” said Richard Walje, president of Rocky Mountain Power.
Western states split over cap and trade
published in: Billings Gazette/Casper Star-Tribune on: 10/27/2009 by: Dustin Bleizeffer
There’s a big appetite among several energy-producing states to muster enough regional support to kill cap-and-trade legislation under consideration by the U.S. Senate. But turns out the Western states are about as divided on cap and trade as the nation is as a whole. It’s a situation that frustrates net energy-exporters such as Wyoming and Montana, where leaders complain that the national energy policy debate is being driven by states with high populations.
Colorado
Energy leases offered next to conservation area
published in: Associated Press on: 10/28/2009 by: Staff
Federal officials are offering oil and gas leases on hundreds of acres next to a national conservation area in western Colorado. They’re also considering leasing thousands more acres in the same area. The Bureau of Land Management’s Nov. 12 auction includes a 480-acre parcel next to McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area and a nearby 320-acre parcel. The BLM has deferred action on another 11,500 acres in the same area.
Colorado health chief Jim Martin to lead Department of Natural Resources
published in: Denver Post on: 10/27/2009 by: Bruce Finley
Gov. Bill Ritter on Monday named state health chief Jim Martin to run the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, a decision that met with immediate approval from the state’s environmental advocates. Starting Nov. 16, Martin will lead state government efforts to address looming challenges such as ensuring enough water to sustain fast-growing mountain communities and balancing natural ecosystems with the expansion of oil and gas drilling.
Longer drilling permits a possibility
published in: Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on: 10/26/2009 by: Dennis Webb
State oil and gas regulators will formally consider an industry request that oil and gas drilling permits be made valid for two years instead of one. However, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission staff have recommended against reconsidering a new rule that is forcing energy developers to remove many liners when they close drilling-related pits, even though some landfills don’t accept the liners. The commission is expected to consider the permit proposal in the next month or two.
Rifle confident monitoring system is helping keep water supply safe
published in: Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on: 10/25/2009 by: Dennis Webb
Installation of a unique monitoring system has boosted the city of Rifle’s confidence in the safety of an energy company’s operations in a municipal watershed. The Rifle City Council on Wednesday agreed to let Laramie Energy II build two additional drilling pads in the Beaver Creek drainage, where the council last year issued a watershed permit for five Laramie pads, pipelines and associated facilities. Beaver Creek, south of Rifle, is the city’s best and oldest water supply, said council member Alan Lambert. He said protecting it from Laramie’s operations has been a concern for council members, but Laramie has gone far to address those concerns.
Bill Ritter: Industry key to Colorado economy
published in: Durango Herald on: 10/24/2009 by: Dale Rodebaugh
Manufacturing, more than real estate or construction, will be the wind in the sails that pulls Colorado out of its economic doldrums, Gov. Bill Ritter told The Durango Herald editorial board Friday. “Colorado is poised to take advantage of the new energy economy,” Ritter said. “We’ve established incentives for companies to create jobs and provided businesses with access to credit and strengthened job-training programs at community colleges.” He cited renewable energy and aerospace as fields that could help turn the economy around.
Montana
Coalbed methane decision adds salt to Mont. farmers’ wounds
published in: E&E Landletter, Subscription Required on: 10/29/2009 by: Scott Streater
Roger Muggli has worked his family’s 1,700-acre farm in east Montana almost the entire length of his 61 years, and he considers the nearby Tongue River to be the very lifeblood of his alfalfa and barley crops. But three years ago, something happened to the river’s water, Muggli said, as routine irrigation began turning the Custer County farm’s once-rich soil the consistency of mayonnaise. The soils could not hold the plant material, he said, and within weeks, large sections of his crops turned yellow and died.
Officials surprised Baucus backs wilderness bill
published in: Associated Press on: 10/28/2009 by: Staff
Commissioners in Beaverhead and Madison counties were surprised this week when U.S. Sen. Max Baucus signed on as a co-sponsor to U.S. Sen. Jon Tester’s wilderness bill. Commissioners from both southwestern Montana counties said they thought they had an agreement with Baucus that he would not express support for the bill until local governments were comfortable with it.
New Mexico
Luján to contribute with pro-natural gas congressional group
published in: Farmington Daily Times on: 10/29/2009 by: James Monteleone
New Mexico natural gas producers may have an increased voice in Washington after Rep. Ben Ray Luján joined a new coalition of lawmakers organized to promote the role of natural gas in America’s energy policy. The Congressional Natural gas Caucus, comprising more than 45 members of the House of Representatives from both political parties, was developed to increase awareness in Congress of the benefits of natural gas. Luján’s participation in the group underscores the importance of the natural gas industry to the New Mexico and national economies, spokesman Mark Nicastre said.
Reduced oil and gas royalties drive state deficit
published in: Farmington Daily Times on: 10/23/2009 by: James Monteleone
More than $100 million in lost state revenues paid by the oil and gas industry during the first quarter of this fiscal year underscores the role the energy industry plays in supporting the state budget. The State Land Office this week reported $90 million was collected through oil and gas royalties and land lease payments made between July and September. The revenues represented less than half of the $194 million paid to the state during the same three-month period last year.
North Dakota
Report: ND is now 4th biggest oil-producing state
published in: Associated Press on: 10/29/2009 by: James MacPherson
North Dakota has surpassed Louisiana as the fourth-largest oil-producing state in the nation, the U.S. Energy Department says. The agency’s Energy Information Administration said North Dakota produced 6.38 million barrels of crude in May, edging Louisiana, which had 6.34 million barrels for the month. Oklahoma was ranked fifth, at 5.7 million barrels for that month, according to the most recent figures. Oil production data typically lags at least two months.
“Remember Charlie” Safety Presentations
November 11-19, 2009
The “Remember Charlie” presentation details Charlie Morecraft’s personal near-death experience at a refinery. This powerful message for improving safety in the workplace and has been extremely popular across the country. There will be safety presentations at six locations November in western North Dakota.
The 90-minute session is free to all attendees, but registration is required (click here to register.)
Click here for more information.
Utah
Bogus bidder argues he had to act
published in: Salt Lake Tribune on: 10/26/2009 by: Patty Henetz
Tim DeChristopher is making a last-ditch attempt to testify that he disrupted an oil and gas lease sale because he saw no other way to stop a corrupt federal auction that would do lasting harm to the environment. In court papers filed Monday, attorneys Ron Yengich, Elizabeth Hunt and Pat Shea detailed how and why DeChristopher would defend himself from felony charges stemming from his bogus bidding at the Bureau of Land Management’s Dec. 19 auction.
Utahns rally against climate change
published in: Salt Lake Tribune on: 10/25/2009 by: Lisa Schencker
Utahns joined countless others from 181 countries around the globe Saturday to call on world leaders and average citizens to take action to address climate change. In Utah, hundreds gathered at a rally at Library Square in Salt Lake City as part of 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action. The idea, in Salt Lake City and at thousands of other events worldwide, was to raise awareness about 350, the number many scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as measured in parts per million. Organizers also hoped to send a message to U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders in time for the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, which they hope will produce a treaty with 350 as a goal.
Governor’s Gala 2009
October 30, 2009 in Salt Lake City, UT
The 2009 Gala for Utah Governor Gary Herbert will take place on Friday October 30th in the Grand Ballroom at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This is an opportunity to support Governor Herbert, who is a strong supporter of natural gas and oil development in Utah
Wyoming
EnCana trying to sell interests in Wyo. basin
published in: Denver Post on: 10/24/2009 by: Sonja Franklin
EnCana Corp., which is splitting into a natural-gas producer and a separate oil company, may sell $500 million to $1 billion in gas assets per year that aren’t profitable enough. EnCana is a major driller in Colorado. “We always say that we want to sell the bottom 5-10 percent of our portfolio,” executive vice president Mike Graham said in an interview.
BLM Wyoming Posts List of Proposed Parcels for Upcoming Oil and Gas Lease Sale
October 16, 2009
The Bureau of Land Management’s Wyoming State Office today posted its proposed list of parcels for the bimonthly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009, at the Holiday Inn in Cheyenne, Wyo. Doors open at 7 a.m. with the auction beginning at 8 a.m. The posted list, which identifies 73 proposed parcels totaling 60,818.91 acres, initiates a 30-day public review/protest period. The 73 parcels are located in areas under the management of eight BLM Wyoming Field Offices – Buffalo, Casper, Cody, Kemmerer, Newcastle, Rawlins, Rock Springs and Worland.
Click here for the competitive oil and gas lease sale notice or click here for the interactive map.
Washington Watch
Reality sets in; Senate bill’s allocation pie smaller than House’s Senate Mark-Up Scheduled for Tuesday, November 3rd
published in: E&E News/New York Times on: 10/29/2009 by: Darren Samuelsohn
At first glance, global warming legislation unveiled last week by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) appeared to mirror the House-passed climate bill when it came to the critical question of how to distribute valuable emission allowances. But a closer look reveals that the two measures are actually quite different. Boxer’s press release offered numerous details for how she wanted to slice up nearly three-quarters of the cap-and-trade program’s allowances among power plants, petroleum refiners, automakers and other powerful industry interests.
Baucus opposition chills climate bill
published in: Politico on: 10/29/2009 by: Lisa Lerer
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer can pass a climate bill out of her committee without Sen. Max Baucus, but losing the powerful moderate could set the stage for a blowout battle. The Montana Democrat threw a bomb into the committee hearing room Tuesday when he said he had “serious reservations” about the Democrats’ climate change bill, a statement that immediately sparked fierce speculation that he would vote against the legislation.
Bishop leads GOP protest of climate-change order
published in: Deseret News on: 10/28/2009 by: Lee Davidson
Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, is leading a protest by Western Republicans against a new Interior Department order that requires it to weigh potential climate-change effects as it makes decisions on public-lands issues, such as allowing new oil drilling. Bishop said Tuesday that the order will “allow special-interest groups with narrowly focused agendas to dictate current and future activities on federal lands, all in the name of climate change.”
Is EPA jumping gun on climate bill?
published in: Politico on: 10/27/2009 by: Lisa Lerer
The Environmental Protection Agency is taking steps to regulate greenhouse gases, even though the issue remains far from settled in Congress, where a key Senate committee is debating a major climate change bill. In hearings before the Senate Environment and Public Works committee Tuesday, several moderate Democrats expressed concerns that the EPA is jumping the gun in mandating new curbs on greenhouse gas emissions across a slew of industries.
Position limits keep market diverse-CFTC’s Gensler
published in: Reuters on: 10/27/2009 by: Charles Abbott
Position limits would guard against excessive concentration in the energy futures market, the chief U.S. futures regulator said in a speech to natural gas officials on Tuesday. Chairman Gary Gensler of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said the financial crisis last fall showed the risk posed by “large concentrated actors on the financial stage”. “I believe we should consider setting position limits to guard against excessive concentration in the energy futures market,” said Gensler at a luncheon held by the Natural Gas Roundtable, a nonprofit organization.
Obama administration witnesses kick off Senate hearing on climate bill; GOP opposition firm
published in: Associated Press on: 10/27/2009 by: H. Josef Hebert and Dina Cappiello
Top Obama administration officials are looking to make their case before the Senate for aggressive action to combat climate change, even as Republicans show no sign of softening their dislike of a Democratic bill that would dramatically cut heat-trapping pollution. Senate Democrats have all but abandoned the likelihood of getting a climate bill passed this year, although they hoped that they could show some progress at a Senate hearing on the issue — such as clearing a bill out of a key committee — in advance of international climate negotiations in Denmark in December.
Bingaman panel explores role of natural gas to cut emissions
published in: E&E News, Subscription Required on: 10/26/2009 by: Katherine Ling
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will review the potential for natural gas to help curb greenhouse gas emissions without significantly increasing energy costs for consumers in a hearing Wednesday. Natural gas emits half the amount of carbon as coal when burned for electricity and is a current replacement to supply base-load electricity needs. Until recently, officials, experts and consumer advocates warned of a “dash for gas” and skyrocketing energy prices if legislation that placed a cap on carbon emissions was too harsh.
Reactions mixed on appointment
published in: Billings Gazette on: 10/24/2009 by: Jeremy Pelzer
Environmental and industry groups in Wyoming are both waiting to see how Harris Sherman, the new leader of the U.S. Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, will affect Wyoming. Sherman, a former Colorado Department of Natural Resources executive director, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate last week as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s undersecretary for natural resources and the environment.
Media Watch
Editorial: A Watershed Decision
published in: New York Times on: 10/29/2009 by: Editorial Staff
The decision by the Chesapeake Energy Corporation not to drill for natural gas in New York City’s watershed is a smart and welcome move on the company’s part, and very good news for the 8.2 million New York City residents who depend on this environmentally sensitive region for their drinking water. The threat has not, however, disappeared. Chesapeake is believed to be the only leaseholder in the watershed, but its decision is voluntary and not binding on other oil and gas companies.
Foolishly Choosing Bears Over Barrels
published in: Investors.com on: 10/27/2009 by: Editorial Staff
The administration creates the mother of all protected habitats for a species whose numbers have increased since Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.” It’s our hopes for energy independence that are drowning. When filmmaker Phelim McAleer, whose documentary “Not Evil Just Wrong” takes apart the myths of global warming, got to ask Gore a question at the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists, McAleer brought up the nine critical errors in Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Cramer: Obama has to see the light on nat gas
published in: BloggingStocks on: 10/27/2009 by: Jim Cramer
Maybe President Obama can make the transition to natural gas that Ed Rendell just did in Pennsylvania. The transition is a simple one: Focus on jobs and many things go well; don’t focus on jobs and you aren’t focused on anything. When I first heard of the Marcellus Shale from Aubrey McClendon of Chesapeake (NYSE: CHK) (Cramer’s Take), I was pretty much in disbelief. How could there be so much natural gas in some place in western Pennsylvania? Too good to be true.
Editorial: The right way to do a wilderness bill
published in: Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on: 10/26/2009 by: Editorial Staff
The modest wilderness bill introduced by 3rd District Congressman John Salazar has several things in its favor. First, it applies to areas in Salazar’s own congressional district. Unlike the over-reaching wilderness bill introduced by Denver Congresswoman Diana DeGette earlier this year, Salazar didn’t attempt to reach into other congressional districts to designate wilderness areas in them. Nor did he include highly controversial areas with few acres of real wilderness — such as the Roan Plateau — in his bill.
Gas documentary offers anecdotes, not evidence
published in: Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on: 10/24/2009 by: Editorial Staff
Many of the people featured in the documentary, “Split Estates,” have heart-breaking stories about health problems they have suffered. What they don’t have, and what is absent from the documentary itself, is actual evidence that connects those health problems to the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells. Without this causal link between the fracturing substances and disease, the claim of wrongdoing — like the documentary itself — falls flat, at least with respect to hydraulic fracturing.
Environment and Wildlife
Replacing least-efficient coal plants with gas means 700M fewer tons of CO2 — BP
published in: E&E News, Subscription Required on: 10/29/2009 by: Katherine Ling
The United States could achieve 10 percent of its 2020 carbon emission reduction goals laid out under current climate legislation if Congress provides incentives to replace 80 of the least-efficient coal-fired power plants with cleaner generation like natural gas, the president of BP America said yesterday. Replacing 8 to 10 of the least efficient coal plants over the next decade would result in 700 million tons of CO2 reductions and if replaced entirely by gas would only result in an increase of 1 trillion cubic feet (tcf) per year of gas consumption, said Lamar McKay, president and CEO of BP America, the largest oil and gas producer in the United States.
BLM including public’s views in Bighorn plan
published in: Billings Gazette on: 10/29/2009 by: Ruffin Prevost
Heavy involvement from county elected officials has meant that it will take a little longer to revise a federal plan that will define how more than half of all land in the Bighorn Basin will be managed for the next two decades. “But I think that’s a good thing,” said Mike Stewart, Cody field manager for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which has been consulting with commissioners from Park, Big Horn, Hot Springs and Washakie county.
Fido, a.k.a. the Climate Criminal
published in: National Review Online on: 10/28/2009 by: Jonah Goldberg
The government cannot have my dog. Don’t tell that to the authors of the new book Time to Eat the Dog?: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living. They calculate that dog owning is much worse than SUV driving for the planet. So when you see a car heading to the dog park with some happy labs drooling out the window, you should think “climate criminals.” Meanwhile, in less surprising news, cats (long known as the handmaidens of Satan) have roughly the ecological paw print of a Volkswagen Golf. Authors Robert and Brenda Vale don’t actually suggest you eat your dog. But they do say we’d be better off if we weaned ourselves from pets that treat Gaia like a fire hydrant. Better to play fetch with our pet chickens and then eat them.
Technology, Alternatives & Renewables
Wind seen as possible tax source
published in: Billings Gazette/Casper-Star Tribune on: 10/29/2009 by: Joan Barron
Gov. Dave Freudenthal said Wednesday that he hopes the Legislature next year develops some way to get revenues from development of wind resources in the coming decades. He said during his regular weekly news conference that there is a dispute among lawyers about the proper type of tax to levy to avoid being discriminatory or interfering with interstate commerce. Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg will give Freudenthal a letter of advice concerning the tax issue, the governor said.
Fill ’er up: At-home CNG refueling station a first
published in: Arkansas News on: 10/26/2009 by: Jeremy Peppas
Danny Games fills up his SUV every night without ever having to leave home. Earlier this year, the Chesapeake Energy executive had his 2009 Tahoe retrofitted to burn compressed natural gas, and had a Phill-brand natural gas home refueling unit installed in his carport. Games said as far as natural gas utility CenterPoint Energy knows, his home refueling station is the only one of its kind in the state.
Markets
Shale gas could delay Alaska pipeline plans
published in: Alaska Dispatch on: 10/27/2009 by: Rena Delbridge
The more abundant Lower 48 shale gas reserves become, the more likely a delay for a natural gas pipeline between Alaska’s North Slope and North American markets, a federal energy analyst says. According to a new report by the Energy Information Administration, the high costs, high risks and long lead times to develop Arctic natural gas supplies don’t stack up well against the huge reserves of natural gas in the Lower 48, close to strong markets. The report isn’t necessarily a black mark against a natural gas pipeline connecting the North Slope resource with markets in Alberta and the Midwest. But its author, Philip Budzik, an operations research analyst with EIA, expects the huge quantities of shale gas to push an Alaska gas pipeline to the back burner, at least for awhile.
US gas avoids capacity crunch
published in: Financial Times on: 10/27/2009 by: Gregory Meyer
The US’s strained system for storing natural gas looks set to avoid a capacity crunch, helping the price of the volatile commodity to double since September. Last summer traders said the underground network in which gas is banked for winter risked reaching capacity for the first time, potentially crushing cash prices if producers were forced to unload fuel. But in spite of soaring inventories, storage facilities offer a surprising amount of room. The government this year estimated peak capacity at 3,889bn cubic feet, while at midOctober supplies stood at a record 3,734bn cu ft.
Rising LNG Imports Could Add Pressure To US Natural Gas Prices
published in: Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires, Subscription Required on: 10/26/2009 by: Christine Buurma
Imports of liquefied natural gas to the U.S. are expected to rise this winter as overseas production facilities come online, possibly keeping a lid on gas prices already pressured by a domestic supply glut and recession-weakened demand. The flood of LNG imports to the U.S. that some industry watchers had predicted over the summer never materialized, held back by low U.S. gas prices relative to Europe and delays in starting up overseas export facilities.
Industry News and Events
INGAA study takes midstream look at long-term gas supply
published in: Oil & Gas Journal on: 10/23/2009 by: Nick Snow
Projected growth in North American natural gas supplies and markets will require billions of dollars of additional investments in pipelines, storage, and other midstream infrastructure through 2030, a recent INGAA Foundation Inc. study concluded. The study, which the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America’s research division released on Oct. 20, projected that investments of $133-210 billion—or $6-10 billion/year—would be needed in the next 20 years under various market scenarios.
Rocky Mountain EHS Peer Group Expands Membership
The Peer Group recently opened up membership to a wider audience. Now consultants, suppliers, and agencies can become members.
For more information or to register, visit: http://www.rmehspg.org/join.htm
16th Annual Petroleum & Biofuels Environmental Conference
November 2-5, 2009 in Houston, TX
The Integrated Petroleum Environmental Consortium (IPEC) is a consortium of the University of Tulsa, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, the mission of IPEC is to increase the competitiveness of the domestic petroleum industry through a reduction in the costs of compliance with U.S. environmental regulations.
Click here for more information.
Key Enforcement and Regulatory Developments in EPA Region 8
November 5-6, 2009 in Denver, CO
The American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) will hold a conference on environmental enforcement and regulatory developments in the U.S. EPA Region 8 states of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, and 27 Tribal Nations. This program focuses on developments of particular concern across Region 8, and includes a plenary session among senior state environmental enforcement managers and a keynote address by the Assistant Regional Administrator of U.S. EPA Region 8’s Office of Enforcement, Compliance, and Environmental Justice. The program is a collaboration of ABA SEER, the Colorado Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section, and U.S. EPA Region 8.
SPE Environmental Study Group
November 9th in Denver, CO
The SPE Environmental Study Group will hold a discussion by Daniel Pring, Buys and Associates’ Environmental Manager, on recent developments in EPA air quality regulations and how these regulatory actions may impact oil and gas operations. There is no registration fee or RSVP necessary to attend. Just bring a sack lunch and join on Monday, November 9th from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM in Halliburton’s main conference room (1125 17th St. Ste. 1900, Denver, CO 80202).
Hydraulic Fracturing Conference
November 12-13, 2009 in Denver, Colorado
Presented by the American Institute of Professional Geologists, this day and a half conference is designed to focus on technical, regulatory, legal, and political aspects of this production-enhancing technology. Presenters and attendees will represent the private sector, government, and academia. The conference is structured to allow for consideration and ample discussion of the most crucial aspects of the hydrofracing process as it pertains to oil & gas production, groundwater production, environmental, and economic impacts.
The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) was founded in 1963 to certify the credentials of practicing geologists and to advocate on behalf of the profession. AIPG represents the professional interests of all practicing geoscientists in every discipline. Its advocacy efforts are focused on the promotion of the role of geology and geologists in society.
Click here for Call For Abstracts and Click here to Register Online (click on Events)
For additional details contact Cathy Duran or (303) 412-6205.