About half the oil and more than a quarter of the natural gas beneath 99 million acres of federal land are off-limits to drilling, the Bush administration says in a report that had been sought by industry to highlight environmental and other hurdles to development.
But environmentalists said the new study gives an impression that [...]

A new report compiled by the Bureau of Land Management says industry has more impediments to energy development in Wyoming’s Green River Basin than previously estimated, as more land holding natural gas has restrictions on drilling.
Lease restrictions on federal acreage in Green River Basin jumped to 50 percent from 37 percent in the new analysis. [...]

Gates Fleximak (formerly ENZED), a 100% subsidiary of the Gates Corporation and the worlds largest belt hose and hydraulics manufacturer, is pleased to announce the release of Gates factory manufactured and factory warranted API approved Grade D and E oil field drilling hose assemblies.
These assemblies are manufactured in the Gates Fleximak facility located in the [...]

Dril-Quip, Inc. today announced that the Company has recently been awarded orders for the supply of Dril-Quip Drilling Riser Systems for three newbuild deepwater floating drilling rigs. These orders have a total value of approximately $75 million and are scheduled for delivery during 2008 and 2009. Including these new orders, the Company’s current backlog is [...]

Federal land managers will issue a long-awaited report today detailing how much of the country’s onshore oil and gas are available for drilling — data that could shape the debate over land-use restrictions on energy companies seeking access to prized reserves.
The report comes three years after a study commissioned by a 2000 energy bill found [...]

About half the oil and more than a quarter of the natural gas beneath 99 million acres of federal land are off-limits to drilling, the Bush administration said Tuesday.
In a report sought by industry and ordered last year by Congress, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management said just 3 percent of the oil and [...]

Newly unemployed mine workers packed a union hall here Tuesday, looking for work, unemployment benefits and friendly faces after a Canadian company shut down its increasingly costly coal field.
“Those young men down there just kind of had like a glaze over their eyes, it was such a shock to them,” said Bob Guenther, president of [...]

A Canadian company has shut down its 35-year-old coal mine in Washington state, throwing 600 people out of work, but plans to keep a major generating plant running with coal from Wyoming.
TransAlta Corp. has signed long-term contracts with Rio Tinto Energy America and Peabody Energy for coal with less sulfur and mercury from the [...]

The federal Bureau of Land Management is about to begin an environmental impact study on a proposed surface coal mine just south of the Kane County town of Alton but also fairly close to Bryce Canyon National Park.
That location is likely to spark a “jobs vs. environmental protection” debate as the [...]

Madison residents and members of the Sierra Club delivered 700 postcards to University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley Tuesday in an effort to encourage the university to take steps toward building a more energy-efficient campus.
The postcards — written by members of the Madison community — urged Wiley to revamp the coal-powered Charter Street power plant [...]