February 19, 2021 archive

Completion reports for February 19, 2021

TEXAS COUNTY Bkep Services Llc 31 4N 15E Bonray A Swd (Bonray A 1) 1-d, February 26, 2018 SH, COMM, TD: 6785 ft Lat: 36.76584, Long: -101.48786 API: 35139207670003

Permits to drill for February 19, 2021

Mcclain County C W HARRISON #1-31, February 19 2021 31 5N 3W SENWNWNW API: 08721985 Lat: 34.86859723159439, Long: -97.5628195193368 RED ROCKS OIL & GAS OPERATING LLC SH, RC, 10883 ft, SYCAMORE(8255), HARAGAN(8800), HENRYHOUSE(8920), CHIMNEY HILL(9100), VIOLA(9375), SIMPSON (ABOVE OIL CREEK)(10050) Oklahoma County B-J #1-9, February 19 2021 09 11N 3W NWSWSWNE API: 10921372 Lat: 35.44395544312413, Long: -97.52094493830882 …

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Energy news in brief

** Protesters of the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline under construction near Duluth, Minnesota threw a package at a work site then fled the area, prompting a sheriff’s bomb squad to be called in by workers. ** The U.S. Senate energy committee will hold a hearing on electric grid reliability sparked by this week’s mass outages across …

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Carl Icahn looking to buy stake in FirstEnergy

  Activist investor Carl Icahn, the largest shareholder in Oklahoma City’s SandRidge Energy as well as the CVR Refinery in Wynnewood now has his eyes set on troubled Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp. Yes, this is the same company that became the focus of a major bribery scandal last year when three top executives were fired in …

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ERCOT—so close to months of blackouts in Texas

Reports indicate that the state of Texas, was literally minutes away from possible power outages lasting months, not hours as the historic freeze gripped the state and interfered in power production. As the status of rolling blackouts and power production improved late in the week, Bill Magness, President and CEO of the Electric Reliability Council …

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Natural gas prices plunge as supplies return in Oklahoma

  As temperatures rose into the mid 20s on Thursday in Oklahoma, gas supplies eased too along with a dramatic and historic plunge in natural gas prices. Reports indicate spot prices on gas dropped 99%. By Thursday, the gas supply for next-day delivery at the ONEOK Gas Transportation hub in the state traded at $4 …

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Why Texas has its own electrical power grid

  While Oklahoma belongs to the Southwest Power Pool which is a voluntary group of 13 other states, Texas has its own power pool. And most of the state, with the exception of El Paso and parts of the Panhandle are in the power pool called the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Now ERCOT is …

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