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Colorado oil and gas company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — again
Nine months after a federal bankruptcy judge signed off on a restructuring plan for Denver oil and gas company Venoco Inc., the company is back in bankruptcy court. Venoco, which focuses on operations...
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Boulder council votes to move forward on city power-utility plan
The Boulder City Council voted 6-3 late Monday to press on with its years-long effort to create a city-owned power utility in place of Xcel Energy Inc. The vote came after a public hearing that lasted...
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Frustrated Colorado PUC delays hearings on Boulder's divorce from Xcel
Colorado energy regulators told attorneys for the city of Boulder to try again to clearly state what equipment the city needs from Xcel Energy Inc. to create a city-owned power utility. With that...
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Airport train anniversary: After a year of headaches, RTD predicts better...
After a sometimes-rocky year for RTD's new airport train and delays in the opening of a route to Wheat Ridge and Arvada, the transit agency is looking ahead to “a cascade of good news” on its commuter...
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Take3: Extraction Oil takes quieter approach (video)
DBJ's Cathy Proctor talks with Chandler Newhall, senior project manager for Extraction Oil & Gas, about the company's plan for consolidating wells and new drilling without the excessive noise factor.
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Colorado oilfield-services company names IPO price
Denver’s Liberty Oilfield Services Inc., which in February filed plans to go public, today put a price tag on its shares of between $16 and $19 per share — or $365.7 million at the $16 per share end of...
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Colorado legislative proposal aims to lessen sting of shut-down power plants
Old, shut-down power plants are still expensive — for the utility carrying the asset on its books, for the customers who are paying for the asset and for the community that’s been dealt an economic...
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New wells for old: Colorado oil and gas company vows quieter operations in...
Broomfield is no stranger to oil and gas development, but that doesn’t mean it’s at ease with the sector. The growing city north of Denver is home to oil and gas wells, some of which were drilled in...
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Bill on oil and gas 'forced pooling' passes House
A bill focused on the controversial process of “forced pooling” of mineral rights in Colorado’s oil and gas fields passed the state House of Representatives on Wednesday by a vote of 36-29. Of the...
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Anadarko Petroleum to shut down thousands of wells following fatal house...
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said Wednesday it has temporarily shut down more than 3,000 older, vertical gas wells across northeastern Colorado following a home explosion and fire in the Weld County town...
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Questions remain over fatal Firestone blaze and Anadarko Petroleum's well...
Colorado officials today cautioned that the cause of last week's fatal explosion and fire in a Firestone house has not been determined yet, even as they conveyed their sympathies to the families of the...
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Denver oil and gas firm emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Denver’s Bonanza Creek said Friday it has emerged from its prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy and restructuring effort. Bonanza Creek Energy Inc. (NYSE: BCEI) filed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January....
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Another oil and gas company shuts down Colorado wells in wake of fatal home...
A second oil and gas company has temporarily shut down wells in the wake of a house explosion in Weld County that killed two and injured two early last week. The action by Denver-based Great Western...
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Feds again give RTD more time to fix gate problems on DIA, Westminster trains
Two of the Denver area’s newest train lines — the University of Colorado A Line and the B Line to Westminster — will keep running under an extension of the temporary waiver issued by the Federal...
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C-470 highway expansion project lands crucial federal loan
The project to expand of C-470 via the addition of toll lanes between Interstate 25 and Wadsworth Boulevard, along Denver’s southern flank, has landed a $109 million loan from the federal government....
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Making a splash: Denver company catalogs water rights across the West
A Denver company that’s spent years creating databases capable of snatching and simplifying information about water rights across the West is expanding its reach — and hiring. Ponderosa Advisors LLC in...
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Fatal Firestone home explosion linked to gas line connected to a nearby well
Fire officials today said their investigation has linked the cause of a April 17 home blast in Firestone that killed two men to gas from a cut line connected to an Anadarko Petroleum Corp. well in the...
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Natural gas link to Colorado deaths likely will make regulation debate even...
Colorado’s contentious debates over oil and gas operations near homes and businesses are likely to get even louder in the wake of findings by local fire officials that a fatal house explosion in Weld...
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Analysts grill Anadarko CEO in aftermath of Firestone explosion
Analysts from across the country grilled Anadarko Petroleum Corp. CEO Al Walker and other executives today during an hour-long first quarter conference call, asking about the potential fallout for one...
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Firestone explosion could lead to 'rich discussion' of no-build zones around...
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday said he expects there will be “a very rich discussion” of whether the state should create buffer zones that ensure new homes are not built too close to existing oil...
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