At least one energy group isn’t giving up without a fight against President Biden’s banning of new oil and gas exploration on federal lands. The Western Energy Alliance went to federal court in Wyoming on Wednesday with a lawsuit against the order. The suit filed by the Denver, Colorado-based group claims Biden’s order exceeded …
New Mexico’s congressional delegation is split over the actions of President Biden in targeting the oil and gas industry and freezing new drilling permits for federal lands. While one of the state’s U.S. Senators supports the actions, its freshmen Republican Rep. Yvette Herell who represents the region of New Mexico where the Permian Basin …
More completion reports filed this week show how Denver-based Ovintiv Mid-continent Inc still managed to find big producing wells in Oklahoma’s STACK play last year despite the massive slowdown industry-wide caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The company reported two wells drilled on a single pad in Kingfisher County with combined production …
Despite President Biden’s freeze of new drilling permits on federal lands, his administration still approved at least 31 new drilling permits including in the state of New Mexico. Bloomberg reported at least nine permits were granted by the Bureau of Land Management for wells in Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming. They went to Jonah …
A federal judge in Bismarck, North Dakota has taken back control of the legal fight over the Dakota Access oil pipeline after the D.C Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld his ruling to force the Army Corps of Engineers to do a full environmental impact review. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg set …
For now, newly-seated Oklahoma Congresswoman Stephanie Bice won’t be a member of any energy-related U.S. House Committee. Instead, she will serve on the House Armed Services Committee and is expected to be confirmed next week by the House Republican Conference. “I’m proud to represent the interests of Oklahoma’s Fifth District on the House Armed …
In what his critics point out is another case of “rules for thee, but not for me,” U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry owns a private jet while at the same time chiding the fossil fuel industry. This is the John Kerry, now considered to be the Biden administration’s Climate Czar who suggested …
