February 11, 2021 archive

Permits to drill for February 11, 2021

Permits to drill issued on February 11, 2021. Grady County WRIGHT #2H-25-36, January 16 2020 25 10N 8W NNNWNWSE API: 05124748 CITIZEN ENERGY III LLC MU, AM, 19755 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(12300) Kay County OTTO #1-19, February 11 2021 19 27N 2E NWSENESE API: 07124925 Lat: 36.80194112340219, Long: -97.12266817542297 TRUEVINE OPERATING LLC SH, DR, 4400 ft, VERTZ(1985), ENDICOTT(2060), TONKAWA …

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Completion reports for February 11, 2021

Completion reports filed on February 11, 2021. GRADY COUNTY Red Rocks Oil & Gas Operating Llc Sycamore – Hunton – Viola: Oil 40 Gas 66 Water 100 Flow 22 5N 5W Brown 2-22, August 23, 2020 DH, GAS, TD: 13487 ft Lat: 34.88614, Long: -97.71138 API: 35051241330001 MCCLAIN COUNTY Red Rocks Oil & Gas Operating Llc Viola – Simpson (above Oil …

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Lots of losses by Oklahoma energy stocks in Thursday’s trading

Skip to content Oil prices fell and energy stocks followed suit on Thursday. Benchmark US crude oil, West Texas Intermediate for March delivery finished down 44 cents to $5.824 a barrel. It was the first decline in the past 9 days of trading. Global benchmark Brent crude oil for April delivery dropped 33 cents to …

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Energy Transfer announces better environment group

  The Texas company heavily targeted by Native Americans and environmentalists over its Dakota Access pipeline has turned more of its focus on creating a better environment. Energy Transfer announced Thursday the creation of a new group within its Partnership to develop alternative energy projects “aimed at continuing to reduce its environmental footprint throughout its …

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AG Hunter urges Biden to rescind his Keystone pipeline order

  Instead of joining 14 other Republican attorneys general in writing the President to protect his killing of the Keystone XL pipeline, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter did it on his own. In an announcement on Thursday, Hunter said he sent a letter dated Feb. 11 to President Biden in which he urged him to …

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Rig monitoring firm reports drop in US rig numbers

  Despite the increase in crude oil prices both in the US and overseas, the number of active oil and gas rigs in the U.S. fell by 12 in the past week reported the Texas based monitoring firm, Enverus Rig Analytics. The company said numbers fell to 435 as of Feb. 10. However, Enverus said …

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Renewable power transmission line fought by enviros

  Environmental groups have gone to court challenging a $500 million transmission powerline to carry wind-powered electricity from the wind farms of Iowa into Wisconsin. They want renewable power but not the way it’s being transmitted. The Cardinal-Hickory Creek line is the target of the lawsuit filed this week against the Rural Utilities Service and …

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Energy news in brief

** The Interior Department on Thursday took steps to strengthen the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) by rescinding Trump administration policies that significantly undermined the landmark conservation program. Secretarial Order 3396 revokes an order signed on November 9, 2020 (Secretarial Order 3388) that unilaterally imposed new restrictions to inhibit the availability of LWCF funding for federal …

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Oil and gas industry targeted with water bill in New Mexico legislature

  By a narrow vote, a New Mexico legislative committee passed a bill this week to ban the use of fresh water in certain circumstances for oil and gas exploration. The oil and gas industry has already been encouraged to reduce its reliance on fresh water since the Produced Water Act of 2019. But the …

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Texas oil company hit with $1.9M penalty for Wyoming spills

  Texas oil company Fleur de Lis Energy, LLC will have to pay nearly $2 million in fines for several crude oil and wastewater spills in Wyoming. The Environmental Protection Agency announced the $.19 million agreement this week. The spills happened between the fall of 2016 and the spring of 2018 reported the Associated Press. One …

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