July 20, 2021 archive

Completion reports for July 20, 2021

CARTER COUNTY Xto Energy Inc 6 4S 3E Beulah 4-6h1x, July 06, 2019 HH, TA, TD: 24444 ft Lat: 34.23651, Long: -97.02248 API: 35019263080000 Xto Energy Inc 6 4S 3E Beulah 3-6h1x, May 28, 2019 HH, TA, TD: 24464 ft Lat: 34.23651, Long: -97.02241 API: 35019263090000 Xto Energy Inc 6 4S 3E Beulah 2-6h1x, April 15, 2019 HH, TA, TD: …

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Permits to drill for July 20, 2021

Beaver County NAYLOR #1-21, July 20 2021 21 1N 22EC W2W2E2NW API: 00723590 ENCINO OPERATING LLC SH, RC, 8780 ft, CHESTER(8038) Kingfisher County CHURCH 1606 #2H-17X, July 20 2021 17 16N 6W SWNENENW API: 07326769 Lat: 35.86998587199779, Long: -97.86256776311488 OVINTIV MID-CONTINENT INC. MU, DR, 17777 ft, MISSISSIPPI LIME(7258), MISSISSIPPIAN (LESS CHESTER)(7277) Kingfisher County CHURCH 1606 #3H-17X, July …

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Corporation Commissioner denies violating constitution and refutes lawsuit

  Attorneys for Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett not only state that he has in no way violated the Oklahoma Constitution by also sitting on the board of directors of Spiritbank but that a former legislator who sued him has no legal standing to do so. In a filing on the last day the Supreme …

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Crude oil rebounds in Tuesday’s trading–so did Oklahoma energy stocks

  After taking a more than $5 a barrel tumble on Monday, crude oil prices in the US managed a weak $1 rebound on Tuesday. As a result, Oklahoma energy stocks brought a sigh of relief to operators and investors. West Texas Intermediate crude oil for August delivery finished one dollar higher at $67.42. Global …

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BLM nominee likely to get split vote in Senate energy committee

  The showdown between Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford and other Republicans with Democrats over the nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to head Biden’s Bureau of Land Management took another development on Tuesday. Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin reportedly will vote for the nomination despite the face she lied to the committee about her eco-terrorism past in spiking …

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Time change for release of Phillips 66 earnings report

  Phillips 66  has changed the time of its conference call to discuss second-quarter earnings. The conference call webcast will now be held at 1 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. At that time, the company’s executive management will discuss second-quarter 2021 financial results, which will be released earlier that day, and provide an …

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Energy news in brief

** The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported more petroleum and natural gas was produced in the United States than in any other country during 2020 (a trend that began in 2014), despite year-on-year declines from the record-high production in 2019. U.S. petroleum and natural gas output in 2020 totaled 66.9 quadrillion British thermal units (quads), …

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Permian Basin midstream operators announce merger

  Two oil and gas midstream companies in the Permian Basin recently announced they will combine their resources in southeast New Mexico and West Texas. The deal was revealed by pipeline operator Plains All American and Oryx Midstream. The two say they are forming a new venture called Plains Oryx Permian reported the Carlsbad Current …

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Federal agency sued by Oklahoma over coal mining oversight

  The 2020 U.S. Supreme Court McGirt ruling has led to a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma challenging the Interior Department’s plan to strip the state of its jurisdiction regulating coal mining operations on tribal reservations. Gov. Kevin Stitt announced the lawsuit this week saying it had been filed last week in Oklahoma City …

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Lucas Introduces legislation to advance engineering biology research

Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas’s position as the Ranking Member on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is keeping him busy with the introduction of yet another bill—the Bioeconomy Research and Development Act of 2021. He and Democratic Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas joined efforts to file the legislation to establish a National Engineering …

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