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WPX Energy slashes 2015 budget in half, cuts Colorado oil and gas drilling rigs
WPX Energy Inc., one of Colorado's biggest natural gas producers, said Thursday it expects to spend about $725 million this year, about half what it spent in 2014. WPX is the latest energy company to...
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IHS exec is named co-chair of energy coalition at Metro Denver EDC
Chris Hansen, senior director of energy insight for Douglas County-based global market-intelligence form IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), has been named to serve a two-year term as co-chair of the Colorado Energy...
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Noble Energy posts record oil production in Colorado, cuts 2015 budget
Noble Energy Inc. (NYSE: NBL) said Thursday it will cut its company-wide 2015 budget by 40 percent, to about $2.9 billion compared to last year. It's the latest cut to Colorado's oil and gas industry...
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E-470 revs up 2014 traffic totals and increases revenue
The number of drivers willing to pay E-470's toll is rising, with 2014 year-end traffic for the 47-mile tollway up by 13.6 percent from the year prior. E-470 said it had 66.4 million transactions...
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CDOT seeks private partner to sink I-70 in north Denver, put a lid on it
Colorado will call in the private sector to help pay for the estimated $1.17 billion expansion and reconstruction of Interstate 70 between I-25 and I-225 in Denver, the Colorado Department of...
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DIA20: Denver airport plans to move security checkpoints off terminal floor
A plan to move Denver International Airport's twin security checkpoints out of Jeppesen Terminal's Great Hall — the vast space under the terminal's white, tented canopy — is being revived. In 2009, DIA...
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DIA20: Conspiracy tales from beyond the runway
Have you heard the one about Denver International Airport being built on top of underground bunkers designed to protect leaders of a secret society in the case of Armageddon? How about the tale that...
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DIA20: More runway for Denver - new airport helped solve aviation woes
By the time Denver's Stapleton International Airport closed down in February 1995, the airport's inability to handle bad weather, the cause of chronic delays, was beyond legendary — it was a joke. "The...
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DIA20: With rail link to Denver, airport won't seem like it's in Kansas anymore
When Denver International Airport opened 20 years ago, some critics — and annoyed drivers — joked that the airport, some 27 miles from downtown, was actually in Kansas. It's true that the airport is a...
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Wind was at Vestas’ back in 2014
Vestas Wind Systems, which has four manufacturing plants in Colorado building wind turbines for projects across North America, said the company turned a profit in 2014 — the first time it's spent a...
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DIA20: Airport CEO Kim Day faces the future — the DBJ interview
Kim Day has run Denver International Airport since 2008, longer than anyone else. Day was hired by Denver's then-Mayor John Hickenlooper. Before that, she was the executive director at Los Angeles...
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Colorado task force faces deadline to decide how to regulate oil and gas
After months of meetings and discussions, Gov. John Hickenlooper's oil and gas task force is days away from finalizing proposals aimed at calming the controversy between local governments and energy...
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DIA20: Major changes ahead for airport retail offerings
As it comes off a record year for revenue from its stores and eateries, Denver International Airport is undergoing a massive transformation of its retail offerings. DIA is rolling over about 75 percent...
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New coalition seeks statewide ban on fracking in Colorado
Colorado could face a statewide ballot initiative to ban fracking in 2016, according to a new group of anti-fracking activists who on Tuesday called Gov. John Hickenlooper's task force on oil and gas...
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Hickenlooper's oil and gas task force advances 9 recommendations
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will get nine recommendations from his oil and gas task force -- recommendations that some on Tuesday hailed as giving local governments more say in how energy companies...
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Ballot proposal to ban fracking in Colorado in 2016? Not yet
A day after a new anti-fracking group called "Coloradans Against Fracking" announced its goal to ban fracking across Colorado, a spokeswoman for the group said she misspoke about how the group planned...
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Colorado oil and gas task force recommendations disappointing for many
Local governments would have greater notification and input about oil and gas operations in their communities under a proposal put forward by Gov. John Hickenlooper's oil and gas task force, but...
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More Colorado oil and gas companies plan capital spending cuts
More energy companies with Colorado ties have announced budget cuts nationwide and in the state as low crude oil prices continue with no end in sight. Crude oil prices for the U.S. settled Thursday at...
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Cheap energy fuels manufacturing, but trade-group chief warns of pending EPA...
America's manufacturing sector is surging again, in part because of cheap energy prices, but businesses across the country would benefit — and put more people to work — with smart regulatory and reform...
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Cover story: Agriculture sector pushes for flexibility in immigration reform
Colorado's agriculture industry had high hopes in 2013 when the U.S. Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill that addressed many issues for the various sectors of the industry. But then...
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