The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) has drafted proposed rules for sampling and monitoring groundwater before and after new wells are drilled, as well as changes to setbacks, which formalizes some procedures that the industry had begun voluntarily last year (see Shale Daily, Aug. 4, 2011).
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Shell Wraps Up Alaska Offshore Drilling Program
Royal Dutch Shell plc on Wednesday said it has completed its preliminary drilling program for this year in Alaska’s offshore.
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Sempra Energy named a new CEO, Debra Reed, 55, more than a year in advance of CEO Donald Felsinger’s mandatory retirement at age 65 late next year. A 33-year employee with the Sempra companies, Reed was also added to the board of directors where Felsinger will continue as executive chairman until his retirement. Sempra COO Neal Schmale will remain in his current role until his planned retirement later this year. Felsinger said the Sempra board early on identified Reed as a top candidate to succeed him, and with all of the business units “performing well financially, we felt the timing was ideal to begin our transition to a new generation of leadership at the company.” Reed had been executive vice president since April last year and was CEO of the Sempra California utilities before that. She is an engineering graduate from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and began her career as a systems engineer with Sempra’s Southern California Gas Co. utility.
West Virginia City Moves Against Two Gas Wells
City officials in Morgantown, WV, were scheduled to meet Tuesday night to discuss two resolutions targeting two Marcellus Shale gas wells in the city’s industrial park and take up a proposed watershed protection ordinance.
Pennsylvania River Tests Show No Radioactive Red-Flags
Water samples taken from seven Pennsylvania rivers showed levels of radioactivity at or below “background levels,” according to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).
Emissions Reporting for Oil, Gas to Cost $62M in First Year
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week finalized greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting requirements for the petroleum and natural gas industries as part of its mandatory reporting program.
Emissions Reporting for Oil, Gas to Cost $62M in First Year
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week finalized greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting requirements for the petroleum and natural gas industries as part of its mandatory reporting program.
Gensler: End-Users Should be Subject to Transparency Rules
If Congress is determined to grant commercial end-users an exemption from mandatory clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives or swaps under financial reform legislation, the end-users still should be required to report their trades, said the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Friday.
Gensler: End-Users Should be Subject to Transparency Rules
If Congress is determined to grant commercial end-users an exemption from mandatory clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives or swaps under financial reform legislation, end-users still should be required to report their trades, said the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Friday.
Gensler: End-Users Should be Subject to Transparency Rules
If Congress is determined to grant commercial end-users an exemption from mandatory clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives or swaps under financial reform legislation, the end-users still should be required to report their trades, said the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Friday.