WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar announced the decision to move forward with the Greater Natural Buttes Area Gas Development Project in Utah. This project would include 3,675 wells and has the potential to produce more than 6 trillion cubic......
Russell: House action is a “litmus test” for energy initiatives to come WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. House passed the third of three bills aimed at expediting the offshore leasing and permitting process. The bills would also open previously unavailable offshore regions for American......
Independent Producers – Not ‘Big Oil’ – lead America’s oil and natural gas development – Drill 95% of Wells in the United States WASHINGTON – Policymakers in Washington are, once again, talking about raising taxes on U.S. producers of oil and natural gas – tax......
CNN/Opinion Research Corporation: “69 percent of Americans favor increased offshore drilling” WASHINGTON – Earlier today, a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was released, further underscoring the fact that an overwhelmingly clear majority of Americans support the responsible developm...
IHS Global Insight report updates existing figures on central role that independent oil and natural gas producers play in driving our economy, drilling 94% of nation’s wells. NEW YORK – Independent oil and natural gas producers working onshore in the United States accounted for nearly......
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, at a Georgetown University speech, President Obama highlighted a host of critical energy-related issues facing America. Barry Russell, president and CEO of the Independent Petroleum Association of America(IPAA), which represents the companies that drill 95 percent of Ameri...
Encourages Recognition of Interdependence of Natural Gas and Power Grid Washington, DC – Leaders of the Natural Gas Council (NGC) yesterday wrote to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to express interest in working with NERC and others to understand what transpired in the.....
WASHINGTON – Documents released by the White House today suggest that President Obama will attempt to resurrect a series of punitive tax hikes on U.S. producers of oil and natural gas in his budget plan for 2012 – tax increases that were proposed the last......
WASHINGTON – In his State of the Union address last night before a joint session of Congress, President Obama renewed his call to hike taxes on America’s independent oil and natural gas producers, who on average employ just 12 workers while drilling 90 percent of......
WASHINGTON – Bruce Vincent, president of the Houston-based Swift Energy Company (NYSE: SFY) and chairman of theIndependent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), a national trade organization that represents the companies — who on average employ only 12 workers — that drill 90 percent of th...