http://wyomingpublicradio.net en http://wyomingpublicradio.net/post/oil-and-gas-operators-flaring-more-gas-paying-no-taxes-or-royalties <p>Oil development in the state is bringing up natural gas along with the oil, but some of the gas is getting burned off in flares and the state is missing out on taxes and royalty payments. The reason the gas is getting flared is that there are not enough pipelines in place to connect new wells to markets.</p><p>The President of the Wyoming Petroleum Association, Bruce Hinchey, says it doesn’t always make sense to build new pipelines for the relatively small quantities of gas coming up.</p> Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:14:31 +0000 Irina Zhorov 38700 at http://wyomingpublicradio.net Oil and gas operators flaring more gas, paying no taxes or royalties http://wyomingpublicradio.net/post/doi-investigate-coal-sales-overseas-markets <p>The US Department of the Interior has assembled a task force and an action plan to investigate coal exports. The move comes after a letter from US Senators Wyden, of Oregon, and Murkowski, of Alaska, asked the agency to find out whether coal companies are properly reporting their sales. Increasingly, Wyoming’s coal producers are examining markets overseas to make up for a slump in domestic sales. Companies can fetch significantly higher prices for coal in Asian markets, and by selling through an affiliated intermediary, they could report the initial sale instead of the higher, final sale. Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:20:22 +0000 Irina Zhorov 36536 at http://wyomingpublicradio.net DOI to investigate coal sales to overseas markets