West Slope Colorado Oil & Gas Association

Exploring New Energy Horizons. Supplying the Nation’s Energy Demand

Welcome to the West Slope Colorado Oil and Gas Association where energy is our business, but Western Colorado is our home.

The membership of WSCOGA is committed to enhancing oil and gas production in Western Colorado while also enhancing the communities where we work, live and raise our families. Join WSCOGA today and help ensure Colorado's natural gas sector remains strong and vibrant for the future.

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OUR MISSION

The West Slope Colorado Oil & Gas Association’s mission is to foster and promote the beneficial, efficient, responsible and environmentally sound development, production and use of Western Colorado oil and natural gas.

Putting Process Over Politics

From the Glenwood Springs Post Independent
It's often said laws and rules are only as good as institutions that enforce them. Allowing the BLM to follow process, born of law, is critical in managing the diverse activities occurring on public lands. The Lake Ridge Unit Application should be approved or denied based on its own technical merits, not by misappropriated political pressure or special treatment for an area of wealth and political influence.

School districts also see a big jump in 2011 payments

From the Greeley Tribune
Western Slope counties, municipalities and school districts also saw large surges in dispersals. In severance taxes for 2011, Garfield County will get $2.08 million ($1.1 million in 2010); Gunnison County will get $734,000 ($428,000 in 2010); and Mesa County will get $1.67 million ($941,000 in 2010).

Natural gas industry drilling for people’s hearts and minds

When it comes to natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing, winning public support is more important than anything else, Colorado’s top industry representative said Friday at American Renewable Energy Day (AREDay).

“Public perception is a huge, huge challenge that we are engaged in,” Tisha Conoly Schuller, CEO of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) told a crowd of environmentalists and energy experts at the Hotel Jerome. “On every level, we are learning that public perception matters.”

Budget Compromise Impact Wilderness Conservation

This year's federal budget resolution stripped money for a controversial conservation program. The move put millions of acres of Western lands back on the table for oil and gas drilling. One of those areas is a place called South Shale Ridge, a remote stretch of rugged canyons in western Colorado. The area is prized for its scenery and its natural gas. It's not considered wilderness, but the area has become a battleground over the new Interior Department term "Wild Land."