January 28, 2022 archive

Completion reports for January 28, 2022

BLAINE COUNTY Bricktown Energy Llc 11 16N 11W Blackbird 3-14h, December 10, 2021 SH, PLUG, TD: 1486 ft Lat: 35.87065, Long: -98.34425 API: 35011240020000 Bricktown Energy Llc 11 16N 11W Blackbird 2-14h, December 10, 2021 SH, PLUG, TD: 1485 ft Lat: 35.87065, Long: -98.34435 API: 35011240010000 Bricktown Energy Llc 11 16N 11W Blackbird 1-14h, December 10, 2021 SH, PLUG, TD: …

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Permits to drill for January 28, 2022

Ellis County CECILIA 36/1 CN #1H, January 28 2022 25 20N 26W NESWSESW API: 04523854 Lat: 36.17409041674264, Long: -99.92937483798816 MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY HH, DR, 19676 ft, CHEROKEE(9320) Grady County NISWONGER #1-16-9XHW, January 28 2022 16 6N 6W SWSWNWSW API: 05124906 Lat: 34.9902838210523, Long: -97.84652022085471 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC MU, DR, 24668 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(14451), SYCAMORE(14478), WOODFORD(14725), MISENER(14961), HUNTON(14962) Jackson …

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Senators urge EPA to reverse small refinery biofuel targets

  Oklahoma U.S. Sens. James Lankford and Jim Inhofe were among 15 Republican Senators who recently wrote the EPA urging it to reconsider its plan to deny all 65 small refinery exemption petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program. Led by West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capitol, Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public …

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Crude made a slight rebound on Friday and some OK energy stocks did the same

Accessibility statementSkip to main cont Crude oil prices managed a weak rebound on Friday as overseas oil settled above the $90 price. Oklahoma energy sources didn’t have the same kind of day. West Texas Intermediate crude for March delivery went up 21 cents and settled at $86.82 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. …

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Supreme Court asked to declare OGE financing method “unconstitutional”

  The Oklahoma Supreme Court has a potential problem when it comes to challenges to the ratepayer-backed bonds that might be used to pay for the financing method Oklahoma Gas & Electric intends to use for its February 2021 winter storm costs. Justices await a court referee’s recommendation on legal challenges made during a court …

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Oil and gas rig numbers grow in Oklahoma and the U.S.

  For a second consecutive week, Oklahoma’s oil and gas rig count increased in the past week as did the number across the U.S. Oklahoma’s count grew by one to 51. A year ago, there were only 18 active oil and gas rigs in the state. Nationally, numbers increased by 6 to 610. The count …

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EV growth to be a highway tax challenge for Kansas

  The growth of electric vehicles has posed a challenge in Kansas. How will the state find the money to maintain and repair its roads and highways since money won’t be spent at the gas pumps where highway taxes are paid and collected? It’s the same challenge in Oklahoma and while the two states have …

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Tribes split $10.4 million in federal Tribal Transit Grants

  Seven Oklahoma Indian tribes are among three dozen nationally that will split more than $10 million in Tribal Transit Grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration. One of the larger grants to an Oklahoma tribe is $785,000 for the Kaw Nation of Oklahoma to establish a fixed-route and demand transit services. Oklahoma’s …

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Whoops! New Mexico governor’s hydrogen push stalled in legislature

  New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s efforts to turn her state into a leader of hydrogen projects has run into a delay in the legislature. Lawmakers tabled a bill she supports to establish hydrogen production hubs around the state after environmentalists spoke against using natural gas to produce the fuel reported the New Mexico Political Report. …

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Oklahoma trade office proposed in Taiwan

  An Oklahoma legislator says it’s time Oklahoma created a trade office in Taiwan, even as the country faces a threatened invasion by communist China. Click here for McCarville Report.