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Oilfield services expanding to keep pace with drilling
In 2008, Dan Eberhart told his bosses at a Houston-based international oilfield service company that they should buy a small business supporting oil companies drilling in North Dakota’s booming Bakken...
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RTD's options don't include asking for more FasTracks money from voters
Business leaders, elected officials and executives at the Regional Transportation District have spent the first several weeks of each of the last four years pondering whether to ask voters to raise...
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Investors eye major new Douglas County route
A group of investors in Washington, D.C., is talking up a new road project southwest of Parker they say could generate $7.1 billion worth of new homes, retail and office buildings in Douglas County...
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Oil and gas panel approves 500-foot buffer for wells
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) on Monday voted 8-1 to raise the minimum distance between wells and homes as well as other buildings to at least 500 feet statewide. The vote...
View ArticleXcel: Wind power notches new record in January
Colorado’s windy plains generated records for electricity production in January, Xcel Energy Inc. said Monday. About 1 a.m. on Jan. 16, Xcel’s Colorado system carried a record total of 1,960 megawatts...
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Proposal for tax holiday for new Colorado oil and gas wells dies
The Colorado House State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee on Monday killed a proposal to spur new oil and gas drilling that offered a two-year holiday from severance taxes for wells drilled...
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Denver meets with neighbors about DIA development
Months of simmering tensions over Denver’s hope to develop an “Airport City” at Denver International Airport led to a summit meeting Wednesday, comprised of six officials representing Denver, Adams...
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Hickenlooper explains why he drank Halliburton's frack fluid
Gov. John Hickenlooper drank a bit of a new kind of frack fluid, created by oil service giant Halliburton using ingredients from in the food industry, in November 2011. The DBJ wrote about it in March...
View Article70 Colorado local officials back state suit against Longmont drilling rules
A letter from nearly 70 Colorado county commissioners, mayors and city council members supporting the state’s lawsuit against Longmont’s new city oil and gas regulations was to be delivered Tuesday...
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Xcel wants to give developers more time for wind credits
Hoping to give wind-energy developers the time they need to access federal tax credits, Xcel Energy Inc. on Tuesday asked Colorado regulators for permission to speed up its request for bids for...
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Another Colorado city favors fracking ban; COGA asks for reversal
The Fort Collins City Council has granted initial approval to a ban on hydraulic fracturing operations within the city limits, but the head of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA) said...
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Range bedfellows: Unlikely coalition forms over Colorado energy issues
In its fight over how far drilling rigs should be set back from homes and buildings, Colorado’s oil and gas industry has drawn support from an unusually broad coalition of 21 business and citizen...
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Feds to restart study of Roan Plateau drilling
The federal government is launching another round of studies into the hotly debated issue of whether Colorado’s Roan Plateau on the Western Slope should be opened to drilling. The new study, called the...
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Xcel files open-records request on Boulder’s bid to form city utility
Xcel Energy Inc. on Wednesday filed an open-records request with the city of Boulder seeking the computer models Boulder used to reach its conclusion that forming a city-owned utility is feasible. Xcel...
View ArticleXcel vs. Boulder: A long time brewing, and not nearly over
The discourse between Xcel Energy Inc. and the city of Boulder over the city’s interest in seceding from the utility’s territory took a turn Wednesday with a formal public records request, but the...
View ArticleRentech shutting Commerce City plant
Los Angeles-based Rentech Inc. said Thursday it will close down and mothball a research and demonstration plant the company has operated in Commerce City for years, eliminating 65 jobs. “The company’s...
View ArticleE-470 toll revenue rises again in 2012
For the third consecutive year, the number of tolls drivers paid to drive E-470 rose, the E-470 Public Highway Authority said Thursday. The number of transactions — the number of times a driver paid a...
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Denver attorney Eric Drummond sees future in alternative energy, but we still...
Eric Drummond, a Denver-based partner with the Patton Boggs LLP law firm, believes fossil fuels have a role in the nation’s energy supplies — but also says the market for renewable energy will grow in...
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In Colorado, sale of electric cars sparked
Electric vehicles were introduced in December 2010, and Coloradans have bought about 1,300 of them, such as the all-electric Nissan Leaf and Ford Focus, and the Chevy Volt, which carries a backup...
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Colorado's Niobrara oil play not the only game in town
Much attention has focused on Colorado’s unfolding Niobrara oil play north of Denver. But quietly, several energy companies searching for oil have leased thousands of acres of mineral rights miles away...
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