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Gas And Oil

New hiring marks possible turning point for Four Corners energy industry

FARMINGTON, N.M. – Jobs in the energy industry are slowly coming back to northwest New Mexico, marking a shift after several setbacks in commodity pricing and market demand for U.S. oil and ...

DATE: Nov 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Controversy burns over methane rule

Interior Department seeks one-year delay; local activists to rally in support of regulations

DATE: Nov 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Natural gas drilling may never boom again for Western Colorado

The one constant in the oil and gas industry is the boom-bust cycle. Prices spike, drillers rush in. Prices drop and the drilling ends. But what if the boom doesn’t come back? ...

DATE: Nov 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Colorado oil and gas agency fines deceased well operator more than $650,000

Well site near Redmesa found to be in disrepair

DATE: Oct 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

More evidence links earthquakes on Colorado-New Mexico border to energy waste wells

DENVER – Scientists say they have more evidence that an increase in earthquakes on the Colorado-New Mexico border since 2001 has been caused by wells that inject wastewater from oil and gas ...

DATE: Oct 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

BLM pulls plan to auction oil and gas lease near Shenandoah

80-acres near County Road 120 still up for sale in March

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

State on the hook to clean up orphan oil and gas wells in La Plata County

Project is one of largest in Colorado

DATE: Oct 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Company seeks to build island off Alaska for Arctic drilling

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – America within a few years could be extracting oil from federal waters in the Arctic Ocean, but it won’t be from a remote drilling platform. Federal regulators...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dems slam Arctic drilling plan as ‘polar payout’ to Big Oil

WASHINGTON – Democrats and environmental groups on Tuesday denounced a Republican plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, saying it would defile a cro...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Colorado proposes new rules for oil-gas lines after blast

DENVER – Colorado energy regulators on Monday proposed tighter rules for shutting down oil and gas pipelines after a fatal explosion blamed on natural gas leaking from a line that was though...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Oil rig explodes in Louisiana lake, injuries reported

KENNER, La. – An oil rig exploded Sunday night in Lake Pontchartrain in St. Charles Parish, a Louisiana police department said. Kenner Police Department spokesman Sgt. Brian McGre...

DATE: Oct 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

As grouse rules ease, some see boost for oil, gas exploration

CRAIG – Officials in northwest Colorado say they hope changes to federal plans for dealing with an imperiled bird species will allow more energy development in their part of the state. ...

DATE: Oct 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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