An adjustment of rates will mean a slight drop in part of the electric bills of Westar Energy customers in Kansas in the coming year, according to an announcement by the utility. Westar says rates will be adjusted to reflect lower-than-estimated property taxes. The property tax bill is a direct pass-through cost to consumers …
December 2016 archive
Houston Firm Reports Success in Kingfisher County
Houston-based Oklahoma Energy Acquisitions LP is reporting success in Oklahoma’s STACK, hitting a well that produced more than 1,000 barrels of oil a day. The firm operates as a subsidiary of Alta Mesa Holdings, LP. The Clark well, in the Mississippian play is located about 5 miles northwest of Crescent in Kingfisher County. It had …
OKC Mayor Cornett Awaits Meeting With Trump to Talk Infrastructure Improvements
One of the issues stressed by Donald Trump in his campaign to become President was doing something about the nation’s highways and its infrastructure. And that’s just what Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett is hoping to discuss with the President-elect before he takes his oath of office in January. Cornett is President of the U.S. …
Crude Oil Prices Jump Above $50 a Barrel on Monday
Crude oil futures settled at their highest points since July 2015 on Monday as the energy industry continued to grasp the details of OPEC’s agreement to curb production, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, January West Texas Intermediate crude rose 11 cents, or 0.2%, to settle at $51.79 a barrel, marking …
Completion Reports December 6, 2016
KINGFISHER COUNTY Oklahoma Energy Acquisitions Lp 23 15N 6W Huntsman Pilot 1, November 12, 2016 SH, SVC, TD: 8910 ft Lat: 35.76889, Long: -97.81288 API: 35073253940001 Oklahoma Energy Acquisitions Lp Miss’an (ex Chester): Oil 1056 Gas 760 Water 1514 Gas Lift 1 17N 5W Clark 1705 5-12mh, October 02, 2016 HH, OIL, TD: 11900 …
Permits to Drill December 6, 2016
Blaine County BUTTERFINGER #22-1H, December 05 2016 22 18N 12W N2NWNWNW API: 01123688 Lat: 36.02793909990814, Long: -98.47541543298755 CARRERA ENERGY LLC HH, DR, 14082 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(9410), WOODFORD(10010) Garvin County SYMPSON #13-6-7XH, December 05 2016 31 3N 4W NESESWSW API: 04925088 Lat: 34.68228054715324, Long: -97.66428729760555 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC HH, DR, 26319 ft, SYCAMORE(15266), WOODFORD(15417), HUNTON(15804) Kingfisher …
First Real Blast of Winter coming Wednesday to the State
Oklahoma is bracing for its first real arctic blast of the approaching winter with temperatures dropping to the single digits in the Panhandle and teens elsewhere. The blast is to arrive Tuesday night and early Wednesday, resulting in day-time highs on Thursday only in the 20s across northern Oklahoma and 30s in the south. …
North Dakota Pipeline Builders Call Government’s Halt of work “purely political”
While Hollywood celebrities and Native Americans are celebrating the Obama administration’s decision to stop construction of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota, the pipeline owners are denouncing the decision. Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. and Sunoco Logistics Partners L..P. called it a “purely political action” by the Army Corps of Engineers not to grant …
Two More Earthquakes Rattle Pawnee and Cushing
Days after a U.S. Geological Survey report indicated state regulatory actions on wastewater injection wells appeared to be working in reducing large earthquakes in northern Oklahoma, Pawnee and Payne Counties were rattled by quakes Sunday night and Monday morning. The 3.9 magnitude quake, with an epicenter east of Pawnee was recorded at 9:22 p.m. and resulted …
Chesapeake Dumps More Holdings to Ease Debt Load
Chesapeake Energy’s announced another $450 million dollar sale of its natural gas assets. It involves nearly 78,000 net acres in the Haynesville Shale area of northern Louisiana. A private company has made the purchase but Chesapeake did not disclose the identity in making the announcement early Monday. The sale includes 250 wells with a current …