Regulatory'Uncertainty'Vexes Colorado Gas Producers,Industry Official Says

摘要

When Lynn Granger was named executive director of the Colorado Petroleum Council(CPC)in mid-May,she immediately found herself one of the chief voices for an industry facing a sea change in regulations and public perception.”I think the No.1 one issue now is uncertainty.And by that,I mean uncertainty about a lot of regulatory issues,”she said in an interview last week with Energy Intelligence.The most immediate concern for the CPC,a division of the American Petroleum Institute,is S.B.181,a bill passed in April that allows local governments to have more control over oil and gas operations inside their jurisdictions.While this has led to some counties drafting stricter laws,Weld County is doing the opposite,with officials doing what they can to streamline the local permitting process-and drawing the threat of legal action from the state(NOW Jul.29’19).Weld accounts for the lion's share of gas output in the Denver-Julesburg Basin,which accounts for nearly half of Colorado's 5 billion cubic feet of gas production per day.