BLAINE COUNTY Chesapeake Operating Llc Meramec(9455): Oil 350 Gas 1228 Water 542 Flow 28 17N 10W Bernhardt 28-17-10 1h, April 17, 2016 HH, OIL, TD: 19405 ft Lat: 35.91372, Long: -98.27958 API: 35011235750000 CANADIAN COUNTY Payrock Energy Llc Mississippian(9031): Oil 840 Gas 1122 Water 2651 Gas Lift 1 14N 8W Grellner 1408 2-1mh, March 12, …
June 23, 2016 archive
Permits to Drill June 24, 2016
Blaine County HOMSEY #1-22H, June 23 2016 22 15N 11W NWNWNENW API: 01123622 Lat: 35.76795303265313, Long: -98.36159711672752 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC HH, DR, 16123 ft, MISSISSIPPI(11274) Grady County MICHELLE ABEL #1-11-2XH, May 16 2016 11 3N 6W SESESESE API: 05124037 Lat: 34.74032498294741, Long: -97.79222163809351 MARATHON OIL COMPANY HH, AM, 23362 ft, MORROW(10887), SPRINGER(12791), MISS (DEEP)(12815) Grady …
Ruling Expected Soon in Williams and ETE Fight
A Delaware judge overseeing the legal fight between Williams Cos. of Tulsa and Energy Transfer Equity promises to have a ruling by Friday. The commitment came earlier this week from Judge Sam Glascock who’s been hearing arguments in the conflicts between the two companies that proposed a $38 billion merger last fall. The suit was …
Inhofe and Cole Applaud Judge’s Ruling on Fracking Regulations
“I’m glad to see energy production put back into the hands of hard-working Americans.” Rep. Tom Cole The Wyoming judge who ruled against the Obama administration’s fracking regulations gets strong support from two Oklahoma congressmen. ‘I applaud the federal judge who stood by the law and struck down this unnecessary, politically-motivated power grab,” …
Tulsa Driller Files Suit over Earthquake Insurance Coverage
Facing five lawsuits and being accused of causing earthquakes in the state, Tulsa-based New Dominion LLC has gone to court against underwriters Lloyd’s of London. The company filed suit in Tulsa County District court claiming the company and Mark Tedford and his firm, Tedford & Associates LLC misled the firm about earthquake damage and whether …
Chicago Residents Say Koch Industries Settlement Not Enough
A few months after Wichita-based Koch Industries agreed to a tentative settlement in a 2013 class action lawsuit over its storage of oil refining byproducts in Chicago, homeowners are asking a federal judge to turn down the $1.4 million in settlements. In a filing this week, 20 of the plaintiffs who live in neighborhoods on …
White House calls Judge’s Fracking Ruling a “temporary setback”
The Obama administration is not happy after a Wyoming federal judge ruled against hydraulic fracturing rules created by the Bureau of Land Management covering oil and gas drilling on federal and Indian lands. A spokeswoman defended what she called “modernized fracking requirements” and said they “are aimed at ensuring adequate well control, preventing groundwater contamination …
Drought Not Quite Exists in the State
The latest Drought Monitor shows Oklahoma has yet to return to a drought but 17 percent of the state is listed as “abnormally dry.” The abnormally dry areas are in north central, north east and east central Oklahoma. “But the rainfall statistics over the last 60 days probably warrant drought designation justification,” said Gary McManus, …
Another Week—-Another Court Ruling Against Obama Administration’s Environmental Efforts
“Another week, another court ruling against the Obama administration,” is the reaction of U.S. Sen. James Lankford to a federal judge’s ruling this week that the federal government could not create rules banning fracking on federal and Indian lands. “This is something already regulated by the states,” said the Senator in an interview with OK …
