April 2021 archive

Completion reports for April 27, 2021

CREEK COUNTY Terrain Energy Llc Red Fork-skinner Lower: Oil 45 Water 60 Pump Big Lime-oswego: Oil 5 Water 20 Pump 32 19N 7E Terrain 1-32, September 10, 2019 SH, OIL, TD: 3095 ft Lat: 36.08474, Long: -96.59200 API: 35037294210001 GRADY COUNTY Roan Resources Llc Mississippian: Oil 287 Gas 526 Water 1335 Pump 15 9N 5W Victory Slide 22-27-9-5 2mxh, September 22, 2020 HH, OIL, TD: 19167 ft Lat: …

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Permits to drill for April 27, 2021

Creek County VANORSDOL #3, April 27 2021 29 15N 9E NWSENENE API: 03729476 Lat: 35.75089223220521, Long: -96.37059493033016 WFD OIL CORPORATION SH, DR, 2550 ft, TRUE LAYTON(1250), SKINNER(2300), RED FORK(2500) Creek County MANNING #2, April 27 2021 29 15N 9E NWSESWNE API: 03729475 Lat: 35.749980028056456, Long: -96.37564979226927 WFD OIL CORPORATION SH, DR, 2450 ft, TRUE LAYTON(1200), SKINNER(2300) Harper …

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Improved quarterly finances for Alliance Resources

  Tulsa’s Alliance Resource Partners L.P., one of the largest coal-mining operations in the U.S. reported a large gain in net income in the just concluded quarter. Its net income soared $169.5 million to $24.7 million or 19 cents a basic and diluted limited partner unit. The increase in the quarter that ended March 31 …

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New law requires Oklahoma regulators to file natural gas report

    As of Dec. 1 of this year, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission will be required to report on recommendations to the legislature about the ability and appropriateness of natural gas utilities to buy, transport and deliver renewable natural gas to customers. Gov. Kevin Stitt recently signed Moore Rep. Mark McBride’s House Bill 1815 into …

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Inhofe blasts Democrats’ National Climate Bank Act

  Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe let Democrats know at a hearing on their National Climate Bank Act that he was opposed to it, calling it phase one of their far-left climate agenda. In opening remarks as a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate and Nuclear Safety, Sen. …

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Sen. Lankford and others file bill to eliminate wind tax credit

  A move to phase out the federal production tax credit for renewables was launched this week by Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford and three other Republicans in the Senate. Together with North Dakota’s Kevin Cramer and John Hoeven and West Virginia’s Shelley Moore Capito, they introduced the Production Tax Credit (PTC) Elimination Act, a bill  …

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SandRidge Energy’s annual meeting set in May

  The annual stockholders meeting of Oklahoma City’s SandRidge Energy, Inc. will be held May 25. The company, in which investor Carl Icahn has a non-controlling interest of 4,818,832 shares or 13.1%, announced the meeting will be held at the Skirvin Hilton Oklahoma City beginning at 10 a.m. The agenda includes the election of six …

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ODOT selects Hernandez to head state Bridge Division

              The Oklahoma Department of Transportation announced the naming of Justin Hernandez as the new Bridge Division Engineer. As a result, Hernandez, who went to work for ODOT in 2002 as an Engineer in training, will oversee bridge-related disciplines including project design for replacements, repairs, maintenance and inspection of …

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Senate confirms McCabe as Deputy EPA administrator

  Janet McCabe was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday to be President Biden’s deputy EPA administrator, but it came without the support of Oklahoma U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford. The final vote was 52-42 as the two Senators voted against McCabe’s nomination. Inhofe had previously voted against McCabe during the March …

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Energy news in brief

** The US Energy Information Administration released preliminary estimates for January 2020 showing U.S. natural gas production totaled 3.0 quadrillion Btu which represented 36% of total U.S. energy production and natural gas accounted for 16% of country’s primary energy imports. ** EPA Administrator Michael Regan is appearing in both chambers this week, first before Senate EPW on Wednesday, then House …

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