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...
President Obama’s Plan to Increase Taxes, Initiate Drilling Moratoria on American Energy Production Will Kill Jobs, Deepen Foreign Dependence “[S]eems like the worst option for the President to choose at this time,” says Independent Petroleum Association of America WASHINGTON – This week, Pr...
WASHINGTON – Barry Russell, president and CEO of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), issued the following statement today regarding cap-and-trade legislation jointly introduced by U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.): “Three months ago, by a narrow...
WASHINGTON – Barry Russell, president and CEO of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), issued the following statement today regarding the U.S. House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing on bipartisan legislation aimed at lifting federal restrictions on offshore energy developm...