Four newly-drilled wells completed in NW Oklahoma

  Four wells were completed this year in the northwest part of Oklahoma by Bce-Mach LLC, an Oklahoma City-based energy company. Completion reports filed this week showed the wells were drilled in Alfalfa and Woods Counties. The Means 13-25-11 3h, located at 12 25N 11W in Alfalfa County is located 6 miles south of the …

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Oklahoma regulators to get COVID-19 update

  Oklahoma regulators will get another COVID-19 update at their regular meeting to be held today at the state capitol. It will be an “in person” meeting for the Corporation Commissioners but due to the pandemic, the Commission’s Jim Thorpe building headquarters are closed to the public. However, the Commission’s various departments are still conducting …

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Teeter-tottering oil prices

  A day after modest losses, U.S. crude oil futures for August on Tuesday slipped slightly but still remained close to the $41 a barrel level as prices teeter-tottered. West Texas Intermediate crude dropped a penny or 0.02% and settled at $40.62 a barrel in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Experts blamed the …

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Amazon expands operations in Arkansas

  While Oklahoma has two Amazon fulfillment centers employing thousands of workers, the state of Arkansas is getting its first such center where 1,000 people will be hired in the coming year. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that Amazon.com confirmed Tuesday that the 826,000-foot facility under construction on a 80-acre site at the Port of Little Rock …

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Energy news in brief

** Tulsa-based OGE plans to hold a second quarter earnings conference call on Thursday, August 6 where leadership will discuss the results. The call will be held at 9 a.m. ** ONEOK, Inc.will release second quarter 2020 earnings after the market closes on July 28, 2020. ONEOK’s executive management will participate in a conference call the following …

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Oklahoma congressmen critical of House Committee chairman

    While the Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee hails the court order shutting down the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline, two Oklahoma congressmen are critical of his comments. Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, the Democrat from Arizona said the court ruling on Monday as well as the decision by Dominion and …

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Oklahoma announces $1 million expansion of EV charging stations

  Oklahoma intends to use some of its Volkswagen settlement money on expanding the state’s EV charging stations….more than $1 million. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Office of the Oklahoma Secretary of Energy and Environment are announcing a grant program funded by the Volkswagen Settlement Environmental Mitigation Trust aimed at building …

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BLM unveils some of the leadership to be based out of Grand Junction

In a sign that it is pushing ahead with the controversial move of its national headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Grand Junction, Colorado, the Bureau of Land Management has announced the selection of some top executives making the move. As the Grand Junction Sentinel reported this week, the BLM announced the appointments of five senior …

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EPA loses again in Denver Federal Appeals Court

  The Denver Federal Appeals Court, the same one that ruled against EPA biofuels waivers for small refinery operators such as one in Oklahoma, has ruled again against the Environmental Protection Agency. In a recent ruling, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed a win to the Sierra Club in a fight over air …

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Boom to bust in New Mexico’s Permian Basin

  “We’re dependent on an industry that we have no control over,” said State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard, who oversees oil and gas leases on state-owned land.  From relishing the thought of a more than $3 billion windfall in oil and gas revenues in February to a nearly $2 billion state budget shortfall by …

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