February 5, 2022 archive

Crude oil pushes higher to $92 in U.S.

   Crude oil prices hit their highest mark in the U.S. since the fall of 2014, settling at more than $92 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate crude for March delivery shot up $2.04 or 2.3% to settle at $92.31 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Global benchmark Brent crude for April delivery rose …

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Two Kingfisher County sites yield nearly 10,000 barrels of oil a day

  We’re long past the point of sounding like a broken record with reports on massive STACK completions reported by Ovintiv Inc. But the company filed reports in the past week showing an astounding 5,000 barrel a day of oil production from a 3-well single pad site and more than 4,500 barrels of oil from …

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Bezo’s aerospace company to expand into Denver

  South Denver is apparently about to be the site of an operation of billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin, the aerospace company headquartered in Washington state. The Denver Gazette reports Blue Origin is advertising for 50 jobs in Denver. Blue Origin completed its third human space-flight, the first with six astronauts on board in December …

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420,000 gallon oil, water spill cleaned up near Carlsbad

  The state of New Mexico says it’s completed cleanup from a 420,000 gallon spill of oil-contaminated water last fall at a site about 5 miles east of Carlsbad. The spill was initially reported in October 2021 reported the Carlsbad Current-Argus.   Click here for Carlsbad Current Argus

Other energy news headlines

** The interior solicitor in the Biden administration said in an opinion released Friday that the mineral rights under the original Missouri River riverbed belong to a North Dakota tribal nation. ** ConocoPhillips said traders should be worried about strong oil production growth coming out of the U.S. this year and in 2023, potentially echoing the …

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