April 23, 2020 archive

Lankford Calls on FCC to Expand Rural Broadband, Update 5G Coverage Maps

  Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) called on the Federal Communications Commission to update the broadband coverage maps being used to distribute the 5G Fund’s $9 billion to expand reliable broadband access across America. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that millions in …

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Energy companies warned of being delisted from trading

More energy companies are being warned of being delisted from the Nasdaq Stock Market and the New York Stock Exchange because trading of their shares has fallen too low in the past month. One is Oklahoma City-based Mammoth Energy Services, Inc. and another is Nine Energy of Houston. Mammoth was notified last week that for …

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NextEra Energy plans $1 billion in battery storage projects

NextEra, the company building the largest hybrid renewable project in the U.S. in northwestern Oklahoma stunned the renewable energy industry Wednesday by stating it plans to spend $1 billion next year on battery storage projects. Already building the 700 MW facility west of Enid, the company will use Skeleton Creek wind farm to serve 21 …

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No letup in Ovintiv drilling activity in Oklahoma

  Two more completion reports were added by Ovintiv Mid-Continent Inc. this week to a four well single pad site in Stephens County making for combined production of more than 3,200 barrels of oil a day from the six wells. The two Mary J-2-4-25-36 wells were drilled on the same pad at 24 2N 4W …

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Completion reports for April 22, 2020

Completion reports filed on April 22, 2020. BLAINE COUNTY Continental Resources Inc 14 16N 12W Swaim 2-14hm, January 26, 2018 SH, DRY, TD: 1496 ft Lat: 35.86970, Long: -98.45267 API: 35011239150001 Marathon Oil Company Miss’an (less Chester) / Mississppi Lime: Oil 1237 Gas 2340 Water 2524 Flow 27 17N 11W Roser 1711 4-34-3mxh, May 07, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 19878 ft Lat: …

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Permits to drill for April 22, 2020

Permits to drill issued on April 22, 2020. Hughes County EISENHOWER #3-36-25WH, December 06 2019 01 8N 11E SENWNWNE API: 06324901 Lat: 35.20199438100977, Long: -96.09516285328893 CALYX ENERGY III LLC MU, AM, 15000 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(4000), WOODFORD(4540), HUNTON(4590) Mcclain County PHANTOM 2227 #1H, November 08 2018 27 9N 4W SWSENWSE API: 08722193 Lat: 35.222823269834485, Long: -97.60588033478892 EOG RESOURCES INC …

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Cushing oil hub reported to be full to the brim

  If the Cushing oil hub isn’t totally filled with oil by now, what space is left is already spoken for—a sign of the times as the oil crisis worsens due to lack of demand caused by the actions of Russia and Saudi Arabia and the crush of the coronavirus pandemic. Reuters found out that …

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Chesapeake Energy sued over oil pipeline contract

  Oklahoma Pipeline operator Glass Mountain LLC is suing troubled oil and gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp for allegedly defaulting on an oil transportation contract that had been renegotiated weeks earlier. Glass Mountain LLC, based in Oklahoma City not only builds crude oil pipelines but owns lines that serve the STACK/Merge, Granite Wash and Mississiplpi …

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