With the pullout of Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy from the Barnett Shale, Total, the French-owned oil company is moving in to replace it. As a result, France’s largest oil company will be the only company with hydraulic fracturing in the Barnett. Ironically, Total is not allowed to conduct hydraulic fracturing in Europe. In order to …
A new report by the federal government indicates there are nearly 5,000 drilled but uncompleted wells nationally. The U.S. Energy Information Administration released its monthly Drilling Productivity Report showing DUC counts at the end of august totaled 4,117 in the four oil-dominant regions. Another 914 are in the three-gas-dominant regions. The estimated DUC count in …
An Osage tribal leader is reviewing earthquake and wastewater injection well plans produced in the wake of the historic 5.8 magnitude earthquake near Pawnee. At the same time, Everett Waller, Chairman of the Osage Minerals Council is promising to do what he can to protect his people. “The safety and welfare of our people is …
The Oklahoma Energy Resources Board gets a passing grade from State Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones. “The Agency’s internal controls provided reasonable assurance that expenditures were accurately reported in the accounting records,” stated Jones in a recent audit covering July 1, 201 through June 30, 2015. “No exceptions were noted as a result of our …
Oklahoma gasoline prices dropped again in the past week, falling two more cents a gallon to reach a new state average of $2.04 a gallon, according to AAA Oklahoma. The organization reports that is nine cents below the average recorded at the end of August. “It’s interesting to note that gas prices in all Oklahoma …
The fight over the lesser prairie chicken might not be finished. A coalition of environmental groups has filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contending that the bird remains in danger of extinction. The filing came only four months after the federal government gave up a court fight to keep the bird …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s Oil and Gas Division issued an advisory on Monday as new data from the Oklahoma Geological Survey and the United States Geological Survey revealed a newly discovered fault near the site of the 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Pawnee, Oklahoma on September 3, according to a report by News9.com. Based on the …
U.S. solar power capacity grew by more than two gigawatts during the second quarter of 2016, representing an astonishing 43 percent increase from the same period last year, according to the latest U.S. Solar Market Insight Report released on Monday by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association. “We’re seeing the beginning of an …
The Senate is poised to vote Tuesday on the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 (S. 2848). The $9 billion bill package would authorize 25 water development projects in 17 states across the country, including $280 million earmarked for the lead-contamination drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan. The House passed a limited $5 billion WRDA …
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Standing Rock Sioux’s effort to block a four-state oil pipeline got a lifeline when the federal government temporarily stopped the project, a move some say likely may forever change the way all energy infrastructure projects are reviewed in the future. Just minutes after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg denied the Standing Rock Sioux …
