Promoted

James J. Kleckner has been promoted to executive vice president of Anadarko Petroleum Corp.’s international and deepwater operations and will join the executive committee, replacing Doug Lawler, who is to become CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (see Daily GPI, May 21). Kleckner has been running Anadarko’s Rockies division, and the promotion “is a reflection of his global operational skills,” as well as his “instrumental role in the phenomenal growth of the Wattenberg field in Colorado and the Greater Natural Buttes area in Utah,” said CEO Al Walker. Kleckner, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, began his career in 1981 with Sun Oil Co. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Petroleum Institute.

A ballot initiative to raise the Arkansas severance tax on natural gas production being promoted by former gas industry executive Sheffield Nelson has drawn more foes.

A ballot initiative to raise the Arkansas severance tax on natural gas production being promoted by former gas industry executive Sheffield Nelson recently drew a few more foes, according to the energy industry-backed anti-tax group Arkansans for Jobs & Affordable Energy (AJAE). The Association of Arkansas Counties (AAC), the Poultry Federation and the Northwest Arkansas Council recently signed on in opposition to the tax hike on producers. “…[O]ur association believes a natural gas severance tax increase would be harmful for Arkansas counties and for Arkansans,” said Chris Villines, executive director of the AAC.

President Obama promoted his business tax reform proposal and once again detailed the place of natural gas in his “all-out, all-of-the-above” energy strategy during a speech at the University of Miami on Thursday.

President Obama promoted his business tax reform proposal and once again detailed the place of natural gas in his “all-out, all-of-the-above” energy strategy during a speech at the University of Miami on Thursday.

In a major speech on national energy security Wednesday, President Obama promoted natural gas as a way forward for the United States and said he has directed Energy Secretary Steven Chu to work with other agencies, the natural gas industry, states and environmental experts to improve the safety of hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

Producers paid the federal government more than $3 billion to acquire oil and natural gas leases under a 1995 law that promoted drilling in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (COM) and then spent $37 billion to develop them, according to the results of two studies commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API).

Producers paid the federal government more than $3 billion to acquire oil and natural gas leases under a 1995 law that promoted drilling in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (COM) and then spent $37 billion to develop them, according to the results of two studies commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API).

Producers paid the federal government more than $3 billion to acquire oil and natural gas leases under a 1995 law that promoted drilling in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (COM) and then spent $37 billion to develop them, according to the results of two studies commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API).