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Nick Powell (left), chairman of
Colt Energy Inc. in Mission,
Ks., accepts the National Stripper Well Association's Hero of
Industry award from Dick
Schremmer, a member of
NSWA's Executive Board of
Directors. The ceremony was
part of NSWA's Annual Energy
Gala, held April 12 in Oklahoma
City. Powell is a former chairman of the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association and
former president of Eastern
Kansas Oil & Gas Association,
and still is a director for both
associations. Powell also sits
on the advisory board of the
Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
sponsored by the University
of Kansas, and is a former
chairman of the Petroleum
Technology Transfer Council
North Mid-Continent section.

County, Co. In its proposal, the company
said it planned to drill as many as 146
gas wells and four disposal wells, as well
as develop associated infrastructure.
Several anti-development groups-
including Citizens for a Healthy
Community, High Country Conservation
Advocates, Center for Biological
Diversity and WildEarth Guardians-filed
a lawsuit challenging the federal review

STRESS.

of SG Interests' MDP as well as an
adjacent 25-well project proposed by SG
Interests and another company.
According to the judge's decision,
BLM must clarify what area is studied
in its EIS analysis of the master
development plan's impacts on the deer
and elk.
Babcock sided with the bureau on
several issues, and ruled that BLM did

consider reasonable alternatives in its
analysis, sufficiently examined the
ecological, economic and social impacts
of the project's predicted greenhouse
gas emissions, and took a sufficiently
hard look at the impacts of hydraulic
fracturing on water resources and
human health.
His decision orders the parties to
negotiate a settlement over the sections
of the analysis not in compliance with
NEPA; if a settlement proves
impossible, he says he will accept briefs
from both sides on proposed corrective
measures. ❒

Deepwater Gulf Veteran
New Chairman Of NOIA
WASHINGTON-The National
Ocean Industries Association's Board of
Directors has elected Richard Clark as
chairman and Galen Cobb as vice
chairman for the 2019-20 term.
According to NOIA, the two assumed
their one-year positions April 11 at the
association's annual meeting in
Washington.
Clark is president of the Gulf of
Mexico business unit for Kosmos

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