June 8, 2016 archive

Oil Futures Climb Higher on Wednesday

Crude oil futures continued their ascent on Wednesday, soaring above the key $50 benchmark while posting their highest close in several months, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. July West Texas Intermediate crude tacked on 87 cents, or 1.7%, to end trade on the New York Mercantile Exchange at $51.23 a barrel. August Brent crude added $1.07, …

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Completion Reports June 9, 2016

COMANCHE COUNTY Turner R L Oil Company Llc Fortuna: Oil 0.5 Water 2 3 3N 10W Continental 4, May 16, 2016 SH, OIL, TD: 1198 ft Lat: 34.75614, Long: -98.23577 API: 35031016690001 Turner R L Oil Company Llc Fortuna: Oil 0.75 Water 5 3 3N 10W Continental B-1, May 16, 2016 SH, OIL, TD: 1206 …

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Permits to Drill June 9, 2016

Beckham County D.R. #4-31, June 08 2016 31 11N 26W W2W2W2SW API: 00921561 Lat: 35.3823199665682, Long: -99.99926465083273 ENERVEST OPERATING LLC SH, RC, 16600 ft, GRANITE WASH UP (MO)(10400), GRANITE WASH LOW (DES MOINES)(12320) Blaine County EDGEMERE FARMS #1-25-36XH, June 08 2016 25 15N 13W N2NENWNE API: 01123612 Lat: 35.753547543362046, Long: -98.53119941639179 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC HH, …

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Coffeyville Refinery Forced to Reduce Production Due to Pipeline Suspension

Production has been reduced by CVR Refining at its refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas because the temporary shutdown of the Magellan Midstream Partners 8-inch refined petroleum products pipeline. The line transports up to 30,000 barrels a day of refined products from the refinery to Kansas City, Kansas and is one of three pipelines that support the …

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Medical Examiner Follows Police in Calling Aubrey McClendon’s Death an Accident

    The same day Oklahoma City police said that energy billionaire Aubrey McClendon’s March death was the result of a fiery traffic accident and not suicide, the state medical examiner issued a similar finding. “The cause of death is multiple blunt force trauma due to motor vehicle collision. The manner of death is accident,” …

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Police Wrap up Probe into Aubrey McClendon’s death—–call it a traffic accident.

More than two months after Oklahoma energy leader Aubrey McClendon, one of the co-founders of Chesapeake Energy, died in a fiery SUV crash in Oklahoma City, police are calling it a traffic accident.  It was not suicide by the 56-year old energy magnate. His death on March 2 came a day after an Oklahoma City …

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Quapaw Tribal Chief Calls EPA Rules “heavy legal burden”

  A U.S. Senate subcommittee exploring the impact of unfunded mandates from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was told this week by the chief of Oklahoma’s Quapaw tribe the mandates are a heavy legal burden. John Berrey testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management and Regulatory Oversight. “We have a …

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Texas Railroad Commission Votes to Fight EPA’s Methane Emission Rules

The State of Texas is about to legally challenge the methane gas emission rules handed down recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Texas Railroad Commission voted this week to ask Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to file a Petition for Review. “These rules are just another assault from the Obama administration in its war …

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Summit to Feature Legal Ramifications of Unmanned Aerial Systems

August is when the 2016 Oklahoma Unmanned Aerial Systems Summit will be held at the National Weather Service in Norman. The 6th annual statewide summit is sponsored by the Unmanned Systems Alliance of Oklahoma, or USA-OK. The Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission plans a presentation addressing legal and public policy issues of Unmanned Aircraft Systems on the evening …

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Inhofe Says Toxic Reform Act is Example of What Congress Can Do

Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says the chemical safety bill approved by the Senate and sent to the President to be signed into law is an historic piece of environmental regulatory reform. The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act awaits the President’s signature after the Senate approved it Tuesday with a …

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