June 10, 2020 archive

Oil prices drop again in US

  US crude oil futures dropped again in Wednesday’s trading, slipping 1.5% or 61 cents to settle at $38.99 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. But overseas, Brent crude was up 55 cents or 1.3% and finished the day at $41.73 on the ICE futures. Natural gas added one cent at the NYMEX …

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Completion reports for June 10, 2020

Completion reports filed on June 10, 2020. CADDO COUNTY Continental Resources Inc Mississippian / Woodford: Gas 2155 Water 2711 Flow 15 12N 13W Lex Majors 1-15-22xh, February 28, 2018 HH, DRY, TD: 26319 ft Lat: 35.52142, Long: -98.55411 API: 35015232750002 DEWEY COUNTY Tapstone Energy Llc Mississippian Lime: Oil 574 Gas 1636 Water 2026 Flow 6 18N 14W Jones 31/30-19-14 3h, March 16, 2019 HH, OIL, …

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Permits to drill for June 10, 2020

Permits to drill issued for June 10, 2020. Canadian County CHUCK NORRIS 1007 10-15 #1MXH, March 20 2019 03 10N 7W SESESESE API: 01725414 Lat: 35.36320383932607, Long: -97.92030474922315 CAMINO NATURAL RESOURCES LLC MU, AM, 18548 ft, MISSISSIPPI LIME(10700) Custer County WL #1H-8-17, June 10 2020 08 13N 14W NENWNWSW API: 03922587 Lat: 35.61614568599796, Long: -98.71947483821481 CITIZEN ENERGY …

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Hertz to make another round of layoffs in OKC pushing total to nearly 500

Hertz has informed Oklahoma officials that the company is planning another round of layoffs in Oklahoma City stating they are directly related to the COVID-19 public health crisis. In a WARN notice filed with the Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development, a vice president with Hertz said the layoffs of 19 more company employees will begin …

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Lankford supports Environmental Policy Act reforms

    Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) to introduce two pieces of legislation aimed at reforming the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), in order to streamline infrastructure projects. The first bill, the Federal Permitting Modernization Act of 2020, establishes a series of deadlines for agency action under …

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Northern Colorado wind farm ready to go operational

A handful of cities and towns in northern Colorado will soon get electricity supplied by a wind farm located near the Wyoming border. Testing of Platte River Power Authority’s largest source of wind energy began late last week after construction recently concluded on both the Roundhouse Renewable Energy Project and the generator outlet connecting the …

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Large battery storage operations to be built in Texas

  Broad Reach Power, a rapidly growing energy storage independent power producer (IPP) based in Houston which owns a three-gigawatt portfolio of utility-scale solar and energy storage power projects in Montana, Wyoming, California, Utah, and Texas, has announced that it will build 15 utility-scale battery storage plant sites in areas near Houston and Odessa by the end …

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Congressman tells witnesses to stop ‘blaming’ everyone

Witnesses encouraged members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to think holistically and consider environmental justice issues into their responses to the Covid-19 crisis during a Tuesday hearing. But Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin, a Republican member of the committee also offered criticism to those playing the “blame” game. “It’s absurd to blame the President …

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Another down month for state tax collections on oil and gas

  The old saying for a winning poker hand is “read ’em and weep” but state officials in Oklahoma are on the losing side as tax collections are down and revenue on the oil and gas gross production taxes plunged badly in May. General Revenue Fund collections were down 15% from a year ago. But …

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Louisiana governor to decide fate of bill targeting trespassing protesters

  Louisiana might very well become the next state to intensify a crack down on environmental protesters who trespass on energy company properties. Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat has been sent a bill that would punish trespassing protesters with a mandatory minimum sentence of three years in prison. The bill amends existing law that …

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