March 27, 2016 archive

EIA: Half of U.S. Lower 48 Production Comes From 2-Year-Old Wells

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported nearly half of the oil pumped in the lower 48 states last year flowed from wells that were drilled sometime after the start of 2014, showing the reach of short-cycle shale production and technological…

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Kansas Snowfall Welcome in Fighting Massive Wildfire

Snowfall on Easter Sunday might have done what hundreds of firefighters couldn’t do in the past week and that was extinguish a wildfire that started in northern Oklahoma and burned into Kansas, scorching more than 400,000 acres of land.
A spokeswomanw…

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Energy Department Supports $2.5 billion Wind Power Project in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee

Even as Oklahoma City billboards attack the wind industry and its tax credits in Oklahoma, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz says the Department of Energy will take part in the development of a $2.5 billion project to deliver wind-powered elect…

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Promotions at Plains All American

Plains All American Pipeline, the Houston firm with big operations at the Cushing tank farm announced several officer promotions over the weekend.
Steve Falgoust, Dean Gore, Barrry Holtzman, Megan Prout, James Robert and Jim Tillis were each promoted …

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