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November 7, 2011

By ABQJournal Staff

New Mexico’s share of revenues from energy development on federal lands within the state tops more than $434 million this year.

The U.S. Interior Department released figures for this year’s dispersals Monday. In all, nearly $2 billion went to 37 states as their share of revenues collected from oil, natural gas and mineral production on federal lands within their borders.

New Mexico trailed Wyoming, the top state with more than $971 million in revenues.

New Mexico’s share of the revenues has gone up and down with the price of oil and gas over the last decade.

Last year, the state’s share was $380 million.  That was down from a high of nearly $615 million in 2008.

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http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2011/11/07/biz/headline-29.html

October 15, 2011

http://issuu.com/thesuitezine/docs/the-suit-magazine_issue-45/39

October 1, 2011

DJ Simmons participated in the annual chili cook off at Berg Park on Saturday, Oct. 1^st.  What a great success!  We all had a smokin’ hot time, and Craig Starkey’s Cactus Chili won 2nd Place!  Way to go, Craig!

September 2, 2011

By Ben Geman and Erik Wasson

The White House announced Friday that it is shelving a major planned EPA regulation that would have tightened smog standards, dealing a huge blow to environmentalists that had pushed the Obama administration to resist industry pressure to abandon the regulation.

President Obama announced that the rule is being shelved in a statement that says the White House is wary of imposing regulatory burdens during the economic recovery.

The decision follows immense pressure from industry groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbied hard against the EPA decision to tighten Bush-era ozone standards.

In a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the top regulatory official for the administration said President Obama “does not support finalizing the [smog] rule at this time.”

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http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/179357-white-house-shelves-smog-rule-in-huge-defeat-for-green-groups

By Chuck Slothower, The Daily Times

FARMINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed rules to reduce air pollution from oil and gas drilling operations. The standards would require oil and gas producers to capture emissions from hydraulic fracturing that escape into the air. If enacted, the proposed standards would have wide-ranging effects in the San Juan Basin, one of the nation’s busiest natural gas production areas. The rules focus on smog-forming volatile organic compounds and gases such as methane and benzene.

John Byrom, president of D.J. Simmons Inc., a Farmington oil and gas producer, said the regulations could represent “another nail in the coffin” for the prospect of new wells in the San Juan Basin.   Byrom said he was “very surprised that they’re proposing this kind of far-reaching, significant increase in regulation at this point in time. … It’s kind of a shock.”

The rules, according to the EPA, actually would save energy companies about $30 million a year because the companies could sell the gas they are forced to collect.

Byrom scoffed at that assumption. “I wonder what other things we could do to make money, because apparently the industry doesn’t know what to do to make money,” he said. “It’s amazing what experts they could be in an industry that they’re not in.”

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http://www.daily-times.com/ci_18573064?IADID=Search-www.daily-times.com-www.daily-times.com

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You may have seen in the paper how the President is seeking to increase domestic production of oil and natural gas (the good news). But, part of his idea is to penalize companies that have undeveloped leasehold (the bad news). See below the facts on the matter:

Statistic of the Week: In an effort to diffuse criticism from his energy policy, last week President Obama blamed industry for not producing on millions of undeveloped federal acres. We continue to hear criticism from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar that industry is only producing on about 12 million out of the 41 million acres currently under lease. Leaving aside for now the reasons that much of the acreage is undeveloped, such as lack of NEPA project approvals and permits, the leased acreage in effect is striking in that industry is more efficient, producing more oil and gas on fewer acres. Contrast the 30.6 million acres in effect in the Rockies in 2010, with the 85.6 million acres in effect in 1984. The number of acres leased has steadily declined over two and a half decades, will only a slight upward climb during the Bush Administration.