Politics, economic distress mark Rmoga sessions
This paper reports that election year energy politics clashed with economic distress at Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association's annual meeting in Denver early this month. Energy Sec. James D Watkins used the occasion to hail omnibus energy legislation passed by a House-Senate conference committee just hours before he spoke. But not all producers and refiners in the audience shared his enthusiasm for the energy bill, a hard-won Bush administration goal that many Rmoga members doubt will help this industry much. Several of them privately expressed dismay over Watkins' praise, delivered to a beleaguered oil and gas group, of Department of Energy research programs boosting clean coal technology and battery powered vehicles.
- OSTI ID:
- 6938595
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal; (United States), Vol. 90:41; ISSN 0030-1388
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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