News & Updates

Oil Industry Booms--in North Dakota

February 26,2010 (Wall Street Journal) State Is Riding High as Firms Develop Better Ways to Tap Huge Bakken Shale Deposit, Raising Hopes for U.S. Production.

Oklahoma Corporation Commission Chairman Bob Anthony defends drilling technique

February 26, 2010 (Tom Lindley, The Journal Record via WaterWorld) Oklahoma Corporation Commission Chairman Bob Anthony said Friday he isn't troubled by a U.S. House probe nto the escalation of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing

Revenue, drilling on the upswing in the Haynesville Shale region

February 21, 2010 (Vickie Welborn, The (Shreveport) Times) <"Louisiana has a long and distinguished history of fueling America, and the fact that we are outperforming every major energy producing state in the nation at this time through increasing drilling rig activity is a sign that the best may be yet to come,"

Gas pains: Probe, study target fracturing technique

February 23, 2010 (Editorial, NewsOK) U.S. Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif, and Edward Markey, D-Mass., are investigating fracturing for its alleged environmental effects.

The Answer is Staring Us in the Eye

February 7, 2010 (Houston Chronicle - Michael Economides) Beneath the clamor, the rhetoric and the nonsense of the last month an enormous energy story unfolded,

EPA spells out carbon rules timeline

February 23, 2010 (Tom Fowler, Houston Chronicle). EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson issued a letter Monday in response to one from eight U.S.

Tech-Driven Natgas Boom Shifts Energy Balance of Power to U.S.

February 22, 2010 (American Enterprise Institute) A new technique being used to drill through a type of rock known as shale has led to a surge in domestic natural gas production over the last three years and enabled the United States to overtake Russia recently as the world's No. 1 producer of natural gas.

Energy Industry Reps Greet House Fracking Probe with Shrug

February 22, 2010 (New York Times - Katie Howell). Energy industry insiders say a new House probe of hydraulic fracturing is unlikely to hinder development of new domestic shale gas plays

Landowners stand behind shale

February 18, 2010 (Calgary Herald) New York landowners whose properties sit on the gas-rich Marcellus Shale are pushing back against calls for greater environmental regulation, saying it has halted the U.S. gas drilling boom at the New York border.

NARUC study lists adverse effects of moratorium on offshore leasing

February 15, 2010 (Oil & Gas Journal) Continuing US offshore oil and gas leasing moratoriums from 2009 through 2030 would decrease US oil production by 9.9 billion bbl—or an average 15%/ year—and natural gas production by 46 tcf—or 9%/year—a study commissioned by the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners concluded.