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Rep. Mullin wants immediate House action on his energy bill
Oklahoma congressman Markwayne Mullin made a move this week in the U.S. House to force consideration of his plan to bring down the price of gas. The Republican Representative, who is also a candidate for the U.S. Senate to replace retiring Sen. Jim Inhofe, filed a discharge petition for his bill, H.R. 575, the …
Heat left thousands of cattle dead in SW Kansas
While the heat can take a toll on energy workers in the Midwest, it left a dramatic instance of dead cattle just north of the Oklahoma Panhandle last weekend. “It’ s a weather issue.” It’s how one feedlot consultant described what happened last weekend in southwest Kansas where some reports indicated an estimated 8,000 …
EIA expects significant increases in wholesale electricity prices this summer
With gasoline prices increasing daily, food costs going up and inflation eating into our budgets, why are we not surprised that the government now expects summer time electricity prices to increase as well? It’s the forecast from the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Short-Term Energy Outlook issued this week in which the agency said it expects prices …
Arkansas businessman hopes to lead the way in EV charging network
An Arkansas businessman has his sights set on obtaining some of the $54 million in federal funding to expand the state’s EV infrastructure build-out. The Hot Springs Sentinel-Record reports Skylar Keller wants to be on the leading edge of the effort. Click here for Hot Springs Sentinel-Record
Headlines of more energy stories
** The Environmental Protection Agency stunned scientists and local officials across the country on Wednesday by releasing new health advisories for toxic “forever chemicals” known to be in thousands of U.S. drinking water systems, impacting potentially millions of people. ** The White House is willing to use the same emergency wartime law it invoked to increase the production of …
Governor says other states should follow New Mexico’s climate change steps
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham went before a Congressional committee this week to talk about climate change, boasting of her state’s efforts to reduce air pollution from fossil fuel production. She used the appearance to urge other states to follow New Mexico’s steps at carbon reductions in the state’s energy sector. “New Mexico …
Completion reports for June 15, 2022
WASHITA COUNTY Jma Energy Company Llc Atoka(14400): Oil 16.7 Gas 133 Water 15 Flow 7 9N 18W Marvin Burns 1-7, April 30, 2022 SH, OIL, TD: 15800 ft Lat: 35.27008, Long: -99.14448 API: 35149213570000
Permits to drill for June 15, 2022
Blaine County HORNET 9_16-14N-12W #4HX, June 15 2022 04 14N 12W NESWSESW API: 01124325 Lat: 35.712336748531015, Long: -98.48418865562755 DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION CO LP MU, DR, 23466 ft, MISS’AN LM(11400), WOODFORD(13240) Blaine County HORNET 9_16-14N-12W #3HX, June 15 2022 04 14N 12W NESWSESW API: 01124324 Lat: 35.7123367537628, Long: -98.4842897056708 DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION CO LP MU, DR, 23386 ft, …
Continental shares slipped Wednesday following Hamm’s takeover offer
A day after Harold Hamm offered to take Continental Resources private with a takeover bid of $70 a share, prices of the Oklahoma City oil and gas company he founded in 1967 dropped more than 3.5% in trading on Wednesday. Hours after Hamm’s offer became public on Tuesday, shares rose 15% and closed at …
Crude oil takes 3% fall after Fed increases interest rates
After starting out the week in a weak posture, crude oil prices dropped more than 2% Wednesday following the move by the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point. West Texas Intermediate crude actually fell 3.04% or $3.62 to settle at $115.31 a barrel on the New York Mercantile …