Bracing for Biden’s methane rules

  New methane rules expected from the Biden administration will have little effect on oil and gas producers in Colorado and New Mexico, where state-level emissions rules are already in place. E& E News reported that’s because those two states already have been working on creating the tightest methane controls across the U.S. Click here for E&E …

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More than 60 wells to be plugged around Denver’s airport

   Saying their aim is to make Denver International Airport “one of the greenest airports in the world,” city leaders in the mile-high city unveiled plans to plug 64 oil and gas wells around the major aviation center. The wells have been idle since 2018 and had been in operation before the airport was built …

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Mammoth Energy’s financial risks grow over lawsuit settlements

Oklahoma City energy companies Mammoth Energy and Gulfport Energy have reached a settlement in their lawsuits and counter lawsuits filed two years ago. But the settlement has increased financial risks for Mammoth Energy. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement of suits over Mammoth’s Pressure Pumping and Sand Supply Contracts it …

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Nebraska faces another possible pipeline controversy

  After helping defeat the Keystone XL pipeline which had been slated to run through their state, environmentalists in Nebraska are gearing up to fight two high-pressure pipelines to capture carbon dioxide and transport it to North Dakota and Illinois. It means the stage is already set for yet another pipeline fight in Nebraska reported …

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Energy news in brief

** PennEast Pipeline said on Monday it would cease development of the natural gas pipeline it proposed to build from Pennsylvania to New Jersey because the project had not yet received all the required permits. ** The Biden administration puts the brakes on oil and gas drilling permit approvals after coming under fire for issuing too many. ** Widening …

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OKC to host Southern States Energy Board conference

    With a theme of “Energy Pioneers in the New Frontier,” the Southern States Energy Board’s 61st annual meeting will be held this week in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt will host the 3-day conference at the Omni Hotel in the heart of Oklahoma City’s Bricktown entertainment district. Speakers at the event beginning …

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Mullin says Build Back Better is a blank check for socialism

  Oklahoma congressman Markwayne Mullin contends President Biden’s $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” plan is nothing but a blank check for socialism, one that also is a move to get rid of fossil fuels that are central parts of economies in Oklahoma and other oil and gas producing states. Writing in his latest “Mulllin It …

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Church is new owner of former Unit Corporation headquarters bldg

  The Transformation Church was the buyer of the Unit Corporate headquarters building in Tulsa. Published reports identified the church as the new owner in a $35 million deal that allowed Unit Corp to remain in the more than 196,000-square-foot building which Unit developed 5 years ago. As OK Energy Today reported earlier, Unit’s chairman …

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Oklahoma congressman pushes ahead with lawsuit challenging vaccine mandate

  A lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate that could affect numerous small energy companies in Oklahoma is moving ahead in the courts. Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) recently met with Alfredo Ortiz, President and CEO of the Job Creators Network, to discuss their lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate on American small …

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Legislator pushes for more use of former Burns Flat air base

Rep. Tammy Townley, R-Ardmore, hosted an interim study Friday morning before the House Government Modernization Committee to consider avenues to help Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority (OSIDA) reach its full potential as a competitive industrial authority. The Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority (OSIDA) is a development authority created in 1999 to operate a 2,700 spaceport …

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