March 20, 2017 archive

Growth in Active U.S. Rig Count Dooms Crude Oil Settlements on Monday

Crude oil prices traded at their lowest level in nearly a week as an uptick in active domestic rigs renewed concerns over domestic production, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, April West Texas Intermediate crude shed 56 cents, or 1.2%, to settle at $48.22 a barrel, ahead of the contract’s expiration at …

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Completion Reports March 21, 2017

  CANADIAN COUNTY Cimarex Energy Co Woodford(10856): Oil 249 Gas 1072 Water 1530 Flow 30 11N 7W Baustert 1h-2920x, February 12, 2017 HH, OIL, TD: 18591 ft Lat: 35.39216, Long: -97.97469 API: 35017249170000 CARTER COUNTY Wildhorse Operating Company Cisco-deese: Oil 2 Pump 26 2S 2W Keith 1-26, October 03, 2016 SH, OIL, TD: 887 ft …

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Permits to Drill March 21, 2017

  Blaine County LASSITER #1-20-29XH, March 20 2017 20 16N 13W N2NENENE API: 01123765 Lat: 35.85521087194652, Long: -98.59782134132266 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC HH, DR, 22355 ft, WOODFORD(12280) Garvin County THOROUGHBRED #1-18-07WH, March 20 2017 18 4N 3W SWSWSWSE API: 04925115 Lat: 34.81260738071066, Long: -97.55385988920959 RIMROCK RESOURCE OPERATING LLC HH, DR, 18550 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(8426), WOODFORD(8663), HUNTON(8883) Hughes …

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CNG Workshop to be Held in OKC

A workshop on CNG vehicle and fueling options for fleets in Oklahoma is planned for March 28 in Oklahoma City. Sponsored by the Association of Central Oklahoma Government’s Central Oklahoma Clean Cities Coalition and Heartland Energy Options, the luncheon will be held at Heartland Energy Options, 3920 NW 39th street from 11 a.m. to 1 …

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Senate Democrats Aren’t Finished with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt not only has to deal with a staff shortage at his agency, but Democrats in the U.S. Senate are still hammering him over his confirmation hearing answers. Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee mailed Pruitt a letter asking him to commit to making transparency at the EPA a …

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Rep. Russell Tries Again to Kill Unused $25 billion Energy Incentive Program

A year later and Oklahoma Congressman Steve Russell is trying again to get Congress to stop the government from awarding or making loans under what he considers another unnecessary program. On Friday, he filed H.R. 1623, to repeal the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Incentive Program run by the Department of Energy. The bill was immediately …

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Staff Shortage at EPA Forces Pruitt to Make Delays

  Faced with a short staff because the U.S. Senate has not confirmed some of them, EPA Director Scott Pruitt’s been forced to delay by two months the effective dates of five final rules issued in the last days of the Obama administration. If the former Oklahoma Attorney General thought he would hit the ground …

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Kansas High Court Rules Against Sierra Club in Coal-Fired Power Plant Fight

The Sierra Club has lost an attempt to stop construction of a $2.8 billion coal-fired power plant to be built in southwest Kansas. The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld a decision by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to Sunflower Electric Power Corp. to build the 895-megawatt unit near Holcomb, a small community west …

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U.S. Taxpayers Could Foot the Bill Over Dakota Access Pipeline Protests

Taxpayers will likely get the bill covering $38 million in North Dakota expenses connected to several months of protests against the Dakota Access pipeline.  Not just North Dakota taxpayers but U.S. taxpayers as the state seeks money from the federal government. The company building the $3.8 billion pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners based in Dallas has …

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Texas Challenges New Federal Underground Gas Storage Rules

Texas is taking on the federal government in a challenge of federal safety regulations on underground natural gas storage. Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a petition in the 5th U.S. Circuit court of Appeals contending the rules were adopted without adequate input and strip local governments of their authority. The new rules were the …

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