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API: Obama Tax Hit on Producers Could Be as Much as $80B

If Congress passes all of President Obama’s tax proposals that are directly and indirectly aimed at domestic oil and natural gas producers, the hit could be more than double the widely reported $32.6 billion, according to the American Petroleum Institute (API).

April 6, 2009

EnCana Offering Reward for Saboteur’s Capture

EnCana Corp. is offering up to C$500,000 for information directly leading to the arrest and prosecution of the party responsible for recent bombings at company facilities in the Tomslake area near Dawson Creek, BC.

January 19, 2009

EnCana Offering $500K for BC Bomber Capture

EnCana Corp. is offering up to $500,000 for information directly leading to the arrest and prosecution of the party responsible for recent bombings at company facilities in the Tomslake area near Dawson Creek, BC.

January 14, 2009

California Governor Repeats Opposition to Lifting Offshore Ban

Clashing directly with the White House again, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wasted no time Wednesday making public his continued opposition to lifting the moratorium on offshore oil/gas drilling along the coast of California and other coastal sates.

June 19, 2008

ICE’s Sprecher Delivers Guts & Glory Speech to CBOT Members

IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) CEO Jeffrey Sprecher took the wooing of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) directly to CBOT’s members Thursday and uncovered some favorable support.

June 4, 2007

Court Upholds FERC Policy Statement on Income Tax Allowance

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, last Tuesday rejected petitions that either directly or indirectly challenged a FERC policy statement allowing regulated energy companies, such as crude oil and natural gas pipelines, that are partnerships to recover actual or potential income tax liability in their cost-of-service rates.

June 4, 2007

ICE’s Sprecher Delivers Guts & Glory Speech to CBOT Members

IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) CEO Jeffrey Sprecher took the wooing of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) directly to CBOT’s members Thursday and uncovered some favorable support. One week after it appeared that all hope might have been lost in its bid to acquire CBOT, ICE also sweetened the deal by reaching an agreement with the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) that could help settle a long-running legal dispute between the options trading exchange and cross-town rival CBOT.

June 4, 2007

Court Upholds FERC Policy Statement on Income Tax Allowance

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, Monday rejected petitions that either directly or indirectly challenged a FERC policy statement allowing regulated energy companies, such as crude oil and natural gas pipelines and public utilities, that are partnerships to recover actual or potential income tax liability in their cost-of-service rates.

May 30, 2007

Winter Storm, Cold Spooked Futures, Local Trader Says

The spike in natural gas futures prices to record levels Thursday can be directly attributed to the fact that major energy markets are experiencing their first real winter storm of the season with sustained cold, according to Sandy “Trot” Goldfarb, one of the largest natural gas local traders.

December 9, 2005

Energy Companies Contribute Millions, Dispatch Crews to Help Hurricane Victims

Energy companies that were either directly or indirectly affected by the destruction from Hurricane Katrina were contributing millions of dollars to the American Red Cross last week to fund relief efforts. Utilities across the national also were sending or had already sent crews to help rebuild the energy infrastructure along the devastated Gulf Coast.

September 5, 2005