Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review, Electric Power Annual, Short-Term Energy Outlook, and Annual Energy Outlook The federal government says while only 3% of electricity in 2020 was generated by solar power, it predicts the amount will be up to 20% by 2050. The U.S. Energy Information Administration released its Electric Power Annual report solar power accounted for 3% …
Ending the supply chain crisis–OK Rep. Lucas
Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas says it’s time to do something about the nation’s supply chain crisis. He joined recently in the introduction of the Truckers Responding at National Shipping Ports Overcoming Retail Turmoil Act. Congressman Tracey Mann of Kansas sponsored the TRANSPORT Act which would require the Secretary of Transportation to relieve congested ports …
Increasing risk of earthquakes from New Mexico’s oil and gas operations
Action taken by the Texas Railroad Commission regarding the growing number of West Texas earthquakes believed caused by injection well activity has the attention of officials in New Mexico too. The Commission first responded when several magnitude 4 and 5 quakes were recorded around Midland and restrictions were put into effect. Later in October, …
Spire STL hopes to win FERC approval
While the St. Louis-based Spire STL Pipeline has gone to FERC hoping to avoid a complete shutdown of its 65-mile pipeline, the company is accused by an environmental group of making “false and defamatory” claims against it. Spire asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday to reissue a certificate of operation that a federal …
Rep. Cole complains of Thanksgiving tax from Biden
Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole complained this week of the dramatic rise of prices from filling up at the gas pump and heating homes to the cost of groceries. He calls it Biden’s Thanksgiving Tax and predicts things will get worse, according to economic reports. ” Both the staggering 31-year high of the consumer price index and …
Anadarko’s new well production expected to drop in December
New-well oil production in the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle is expected to take a hit in December according to a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In a newly-released report this week, the EIA said the average new-well oil production in November was 845 barrels a day and it …
Mullin and others want energy price hearings
Oklahoma Republican Congressman Markwayne Mullin is among the GOP members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wanting congressional hearings into rising energy prices. They asked Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, a Democrat, in a formal letter to begin hearings into the issue and what the Biden administration’s Department of Energy is doing about it. …
Exxon Mobil to sell its Barnett Shale holdings
Exxon Mobil has started selling its oil and gas properties in the Barnett Shale area of north Texas, a sale involving 2,700 wells across an estimated 182,000 acres. The area is the home of the first horizontally drilled shale wells and is part of the company’s goal announced three years ago of raising …
ONEOK to complete unfinished projects in Texas and North Dakota
ONEOK, Inc. announced Monday it is moving ahead with completion of natural gas and natural gas liquids infrastructure projects in North Dakota and Texas that the company halted work on because of the 2020 pandemic and the effects on the energy markets. One is the Demicks Lake III, a 200 million cubic feet …
Fire danger to grow Tuesday in Oklahoma
This week’s warm weather and lack of rainfall will increase fire dangers in Oklahoma on Tuesday. The fire danger warning came Monday from the Oklahoma Forestry Services department which said the danger was expected to grow in advance of a cold front that move into the Panhandle and western Oklahoma early Wednesday. ” This …
