October 2016 archive

Permits to Drill October 26, 2016

Blaine County GILLILAN #5-26-35XH, October 24 2016 26 16N 10W SWNENENW API: 01123672 Lat: 35.84011910069856, Long: -98.23483975691637 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC HH, DR, 19643 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(9985) Blaine County GILLILAN #4-26-35XH, October 24 2016 26 16N 10W SWNENENW API: 01123671 Lat: 35.840119113518774, Long: -98.23504218061855 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC HH, DR, 19793 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(10135) Caddo County CAPTAIN #1-30, October …

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Halliburton’s Looking for Workers

The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission’s recent report that the downturn in Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry might have hit bottom might be supported by Halliburton. The Houston, Texas based company opened a job fair this week in Yukon at the Yukon Event Center. Its sign advertising job openings for mechanical and electronic technicians. Inside, applicants …

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House Committee Told Oil and Gas Operators Won’t Change Saltwater Disposal Methods Until Forced by the Government

The President of a brine processing company that wants to build a $175 million plant in Oklahoma told a State House Committee hearing on Tuesday what some oil and gas groups have done in the past few years has been a “dog and pony show” when it comes to injection wells and earthquakes in the …

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Water Board Gets Nearly $11 million EPA Grant

The Oklahoma Water Resources Board has received a nearly $11 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to fund clean-water projects in the state. The grant goes to the state’s Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund. it provides low-interest, flexible loans to communities to help them improve water quality and infrastructure. The $10.79 million will …

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EPA Sued Over Radioactive Exposure Plan

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds itself hauled into court again, but this time by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The group filed suit in Washington, D.C., accusing the EPA of illegally withholding the specific effects of its pending plan to hike permissible radiation exposure in drinking water. The EPA has refused to disclose …

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Environmentalists Mount Opposition to West Texas Drilling Around Balmorhea State Park

Environmental groups are mounting a fight against the plans of Houston-based Apache Corp. to begin drilling in its newly-found Alpine High play in far west Texas. Of big concern to some of the groups is the plan to drill around Balmorhea State Park and its famous spring-fed pool, described as the largest in the world, according …

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Oil and Gas Money Split on Presidential Candidates

America’s oil and gas industry leaders are apparently split as they pour money into the Presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. As it stands less than two weeks before voters decide on who to send to the White House, it appears Hillary Clinton has received slightly more money than Trump, according to a …

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Drone Attacks Helicopter—-Deputies Forced to Shoot it Down at Protest Site in North Dakota

The Dakota Access Pipeline protest supported by some Oklahoma Native American tribes saw North Dakota law enforcement officials shooting at an unmanned aircraft over the weekend. The Morton County Sheriff’s office said a helicopter that was monitoring the latest protest against the nearly $4 billion pipeline was approached by a drone in what the office …

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Part of Seaway Pipeline Reopened After Oil Spill at Cushing

    Officials with Enterprise Products Partners say most of the oil that leaked Sunday night from its Seaway Crude Pipeline system at Cushing was contained in a retention pond The leak happened at a facility belonging to Enbridge Inc., a joint-owner of the Seaway Crude Pipeline company with Enterprise. Enterprise shut down the 400,000-bpd pipeline …

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USGS Says Underground Wastewater Disposal Wells Responsible for Seismic Activity

  An underground wastewater disposal from oil and natural gas production is to blame for the third-largest earthquake in Oklahoma, according to a report issued Monday by the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS said the 5.1 magnitude earthquake that struck northwest of Fairview in February was likely induced by distant disposal wells. The agency’s report …

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