Chesapeake Energy Corp. is dropping its support for a series of controversial “Coal is Filthy” advertisements in Texas.
Tom Price, a Chesapeake Energy vice president, said today, “The reason that we’re dropping the support is, it (the advertising campaign) was intended to further the discussion about our nation’s energy supply and whether clean coal at this [...]

Energy industry executive Paul Prager and Natural Gas Partners (”NGP”), the leading investment franchise in the energy industry, today announced that they have entered into an agreement to acquire the domestic independent power production and power development business units of MDU Resources Group, Inc. in a transaction valued at $636 million. The business being [...]

Metso Minerals will supply bulk materials handling equipment to Bateman Africa (Pty) Ltd. for Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) situated on the east coast of South Africa. The delivery, installation and commissioning will be completed by the first quarter of 2009. The value of the order is approximately EUR 17 million (approx. ZAR 160 [...]

Environmentalists had hoped that if a new coal-fired power plant like the one proposed near Waterloo had to be built in Iowa it would at least be required to get some of its energy from renewable sources.
But an Iowa House committee has scrapped the idea after concerns about the cost to the industry.
A measure killed [...]

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. announced that it will issue a press release and host a conference call and web cast related to its first-quarter 2007 operating results on Thursday, April 26, 2007. The conference call and web cast will include a discussion by management regarding the Company’s results of operation, as well as an operating [...]

Recent additions to the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council have all come from the oil and gas industry, which could hinder the council on matters regarding water discharge — a key element of the state’s energy industry.
When terms for three of the seven-member council expired at the end of January, Freudenthal appointed Craig Newman, David [...]

GREEN RIVER - An exploratory drilling project proposed in north Sublette County is drawing opposition from conservationists and others who say oil and gas development doesn’t belong within the Bridger-Teton National Forest’s Wyoming Range.
“If they drill these wells, it’ll be the beginning of the end for the Wyoming Range,” said Dan Smitherman, an outfitter with [...]

GREEN RIVER - A small exploratory drilling project proposed for the Wyoming Range in north Sublette County is spotlighting the conflict between energy development and preservation in western Wyoming.
Conservationists and others are objecting to the drilling project and say oil and gas development doesn’t belong within the Bridger-Teton National Forest’s Wyoming Range. They view [...]

Empowering geoscientists with more deskside high-performance computing power could increase oil and gas production overall, reports a new survey released today by Microsoft Corp. at the Microsoft® 2007 Global Energy Forum.
The Microsoft High-Performance Computing Oil and Gas Industry Survey 2007, sponsored by Microsoft and conducted by Houston-based Gelb Consulting Group Inc., shows a trend [...]

Houston - Accounting, tax and business advisory firm Grant Thornton LLP announced recently that, according to its 2007 Survey of Upstream U.S. Energy Companies, the top concern among energy executives is the uncertainty of natural gas and oil prices in the near future.
More than 80 companies (40 percent public and 60 percent private) responded to [...]