Crude oil futures climbed on Tuesday, with the commodity logging its fourth gain in a row as traders braced for a possible decline in domestic supplies, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. August West Texas Intermediate crude rose by 86 cents, or 2%, to settle at $44.24 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. August Brent crude, …
June 2017 archive
Completion Reports June 28, 2017
DEWEY COUNTY Mewbourne Oil Company Cleveland(8850): Oil 207 Gas 278 Water 3026 Flow 9 17N 19W Fighting Bull 4 Md 1hc, May 25, 2017 HH, OIL, TD: 13670 ft Lat: 35.97055, Long: -99.23629 API: 35043234990000 KINGFISHER COUNTY Chisholm Oil & Gas Operating Llc Mississippian: Oil 186 Gas 120 Water 2090 Gas Lift 31 19N …
Permits to Drill June 28, 2017
Canadian County ROSEWOOD 16-12-7 #2H, March 17 2017 16 12N 7W NESWSWSW API: 01724984 Lat: 35.50918033364658, Long: -97.95274020569308 JONES ENERGY LLC HH, AM, 14259 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(9328), WOODFORD(9981) Canadian County ROSEWOOD 16-12-7 #1H, March 17 2017 16 12N 7W NESWSWSW API: 01724983 Lat: 35.5091803347881, Long: -97.95280740228361 JONES ENERGY LLC HH, AM, 14631 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(9645), WOODFORD(9981) …
Police Chiefs Gather to Talk Oil Pipeline Security and Other Topics
Oil pipeline safety and security is one of several topics to be discussed this week at the annual conference of the Oklahoma Association of Chiefs of Police and the Oklahoma Police Chiefs Training Foundation. The conference got underway Monday in Ardmore. The pipeline security topic is one of several training items to be discussed in …
Court Date Set in Montana in Fight Against Keystone XL Pipeline
The date of Aug. 31 is when a Montana federal judge will hear arguments whether legal challenges should move ahead to the Keystone XL pipeline. The challenges are being fought by the government. It concerns two lawsuits filed against the Trump administration in March by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, the Centr …
Pruitt Defends EPA Budget Cuts….Vows No Regional Offices Will be Closed
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt defends his agency’s proposed budget cuts saying they still supports the agency’s highest priorities with federal funding for core work in air and water quality, contaminated land clean-ups and enforcement. In prepared remarks Tuesday during a U.S. Senate subcommittee appropriations hearing, the former Oklahoma Attorney General made it clear his agency …
Hunter Joins Other GOP Attorneys General in Defending Exxon Mobil
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter joined other Republican attorneys general in recently coming to the defense of Exxon Mobil Corp. in its fight with some Democratic attorneys general. Hunter was one of a dozen attorneys general who made arguments against climate scientists who blame energy companies in part of the rising level of carbon dioxide. …
Oklahoma Gasoline Prices Reach New Low for the Year
Gasoline prices in Oklahoma have fallen to a new low for the year as of this week, tumbling to a new level of $1.95 a gallon, according to a weekly report from AAA Oklahoma. The new-weekly average puts Oklahoma with the second lowest price in the nation behind only South Carolina where the average …
Inhofe’s Influence on National Energy Policies Grows
Oklahoma U.S. Senators Jim Inhofe and James Lankford voted this week to confirm Kristine Svinicki to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. And there remains the possibility that yet another former Inhofe staffer could be in line to influence energy policies in the Trump administration. Svinicki was confirmed on a vote of 88-9 to a five-year term. …
Oklahoma Roads and Bridges Still in Bad Shape Despite Claims of State Leaders
While Governor Mary Fallin and State Transportation Department leaders have pointed to what they consider to be major improvements in highways and bridges, a new national report shows Oklahoma’s roads and bridges remain in need of major improvements. TRIP, a national non-profit transportation research group is out with a report Rural Connections: Challenges and Opportunities …
