http://www.theenergydaily.com Energy Portal en-us 2010 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:58:10 EST In a move intended to remake the province as a destination for oil and natural gas drillers unhappy with 2008 royalty rate increases, the Alberta government announced policy changes Thursday that will lower the government’s revenue take from natural gas... http://www.theenergydaily.com/oil/4064.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Following months of parrying between the state’s politically divided House and Senate, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Wednesday signed into law legislation that make it the expressed policy of Virginia to support oil and natural gas drilling 50 miles off... http://www.theenergydaily.com/oil/4066.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST In its first foray into Brazil’s deepwater resources, BP plc Thursday announced it would pay $7 billion to acquire Devon Energy Corp.’s exploration blocks in Brazil’s prolific Campos Basin and other assets in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and... http://www.theenergydaily.com/oil/4068.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST In a new and potentially powerful argument for legislative action against climate change, new research released Wednesday concludes that using captured carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery could slash U.S oil imports in half by 2030 while permanently... http://www.theenergydaily.com/oil/4051.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST The Senate was poised to approve late Tuesday a one-year extension of a biodiesel tax incentive that the industry says is crucial to maintaining its viability as it faces stiff competition from low-cost petroleum diesel. A proposed extension of the $1 per... http://www.theenergydaily.com/oil/4047.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST In a finding that managed to perturb both wildlife groups and oil and natural gas industry officials—while also threatening wind, solar and transmission development in the West—the Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service Friday... http://www.theenergydaily.com/oil/4029.html Mon, 8 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Amid GOP and industry charges of a secret Obama administration “land grab” to prevent drilling on many western lands through national monument designations, a senior Senate Republican from the West said Wednesday that he agreed that federal... http://www.theenergydaily.com/oil/4016.html Thu, 4 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Congressional Republicans last week charged the Obama administration with planning to “lock up” as much as 13 million of acres of land in 11 western U.S. states from use by oil and gas drillers, saying leaked Interior Department documents listing... http://www.theenergydaily.com/oil/4000.html Tue, 2 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Randall Luthi, former director of the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service under the George W. Bush administration, Monday was named president of the U.S. trade association representing both offshore oil and gas drillers and renewable... http://www.theenergydaily.com/oil/4003.html Tue, 2 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Royal Dutch Shell plc announced Tuesday that it has decided to withdraw its application for conditional water rights on northwestern Colorado’s Yampa River to develop oil shale on three leases it owns in Colorado’s Rio Blanco County, citing the... http://www.theenergydaily.com/oil/3995.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST