Results for tag oil+gas

Meis: Plan is a threat to economy

The Bureau of Land Management’s draft plan for managing more than a half-million acres of public land in west-central Colorado would be devastating to Mesa County’s economic future, and the agency should rework and reissue the plan, Mesa County Commissioner Craig Meis said Tuesday. “There is no bigger thing to impact our economic development in northwest Colorado than that (resource management plan),” Meis said in a meeting with The Daily Sentinel editorial ...

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Struggling Black Mountain gets OK to expand oil, gas waste recycling facility

Black Mountain Recycling received the go-ahead Tuesday to expand its De Beque-area oil and gas waste-disposal business, a move that should generate vital revenue for the financially struggling company, which entered bankruptcy two months ago. The Mesa County Commission unanimously agreed to amend Black Mountain Recycling’s conditional-use permit and certificate of designation, which will allow the company to receive production water and fracking fluid in four evaporation ponds and ...

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Troubled oil, gas waste facility asks court for bankruptcy protection

Black Mountain Recycling is seeking federal bankruptcy protection, casting deeper into doubt the future of the De Beque-area oil and gas waste-disposal business, which is caught in a tug of war between its former and current owners. Denver-based attorney Guy Humphries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on behalf of the business last month, the first step in a process that could take months or years to resolve. Businesses usually file for Chapter 11 when they need to restructure the debts they ...

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BLM to assess oil-drilling proposal for area near Whitewater

The company that hit oil when drilling earlier this year for natural gas near Whitewater is now taking direct aim at oil with a new drilling plan. Fram Operating LLC struck oil as it was drilling exploratory wells southeast of Grand Junction for what was anticipated to be a 500-well natural gas project. Now Fram is gearing up for oil production from about 26,000 acres, all in Mesa County, in a reworked plan. The original proposal “is no longer on the table,” Bureau of Land ...

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Vermillion closed to drilling

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is proceeding with a land management plan that closes the roughly 120- square-mile Vermillion Basin northwest of Craig to oil and gas development. The agency affirmed its intentions for the Vermillion Basin as part of a final decision it issued Monday on its Little Snake Resource Management Plan in northwestern Colorado. The planned closure was first revealed last year, marking a reversal of a BLM proposal under the Bush administration and drawing ...

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Drilling near Delta will test potential of Mancos shale

Federal geologists plan to drill a core sample near Delta to assess the potential of a shale formation for oil and gas development. The Bureau of Land Management has approved a proposal by the U.S. Geological Survey to extract a sample from the Mancos shale formation in the North Delta off-highway vehicle area about six miles northeast of Delta. Drilling is set to start Oct. 24 and is expected to last five to 10 days. The BLM said in a news release that the project is being done in ...

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Colorado River BLM proposal reins in travel, addresses oil, gas scenarios

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Pipeline issues abound

More questions surfaced this week about the proposed project to pump water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Wyoming to Colorado’s Front Range, when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission sought additional information from applicant Aaron Million. The federal agency said Million has 30 days to show where nine proposed natural gas-powered pump stations and four new reservoirs will be located — as well as other project details — or his federal permit application may be ...

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Waste facility owners face suit

A De Beque-area oil and gas waste-disposal business that has been blistered for a yet-to-be-remedied environmental spill is under the microscope again, as the current owner has defaulted on payments to the previous owners and faces allegations of fresh wastewater contamination. Mesa County District Judge David Bottger last week granted receivership of Black Mountain Recycling to John Watt Jr., a consultant to the facility’s former owners, Elaine Wells and Jeff Pratt, who operated the ...

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Oil, gas groups comment on Colo. roadless proposal

DENVER — Groups representing oil and gas companies say they’re concerned that Colorado’s proposed rule for managing roadless forests would essentially designate more areas as wilderness. They said in comments to the U.S. Forest Service last week that only Congress can designate wilderness that’s protected from development. The comments were submitted by the Western Energy Alliance, Colorado Oil and Gas Association, Colorado Petroleum Association, La Plata County ...

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