April 7, 2017 archive

Completion Reports April 10, 2017

  GRADY COUNTY Ward Petroleum Corporation Hoxbar: Oil 20 Gas 1800 Water 250 Flow 11 5N 8W Harris 2-2 Cmh, March 02, 2017 HH, GAS, TD: 16585 ft Lat: 34.92657, Long: -98.01175 API: 35051240700000 PITTSBURG COUNTY Bp America Production Company Woodford-hunton- Sylvan: Gas 1280 Flow 19 3N 12E Bowen 3-18/7h, April 20, 2016 HH, GAS, …

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Permits to Drill April 10, 2017

  Blaine County SLO-POKE SWD #1, April 07 2017 33 18N 12W CSESESE API: 01123776 Lat: 35.98608469576474, Long: -98.47740667733184 CARRERA ENERGY LLC SH, DR, 11250 ft, VIOLA(10700), SIMPSON(10950) Canadian County COWBOY #1H-34-3, November 03 2016 34 11N 7W NENENENW API: 01724943 Lat: 35.3909647931158, Long: -97.92894232173718 CITIZEN ENERGY II LLC HH, AM, 18800 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(10350), WOODFORD(10600) …

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Kimray Strikes Deal for Worldwide Distribution with DistributionNOW

Oklahoma City-based Kimray Inc. has announced it’s made an exclusive international distribution agreement with DistributionNOW. Houston based-DNOW is considered a leading provider of drilling and production equipment with a global presence in the oil and gas chain. Under the deal, DNOW will distribute Kimray’s line of regulators, control valves, glycol pumps and liquid level controls …

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Politics of Confirming Judge Gorsuch to Supreme Court

It’s a given that newly-confirmed U.S. Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will eventually handle some energy-related cases in the coming years. It’s why his confirmation is important to follow. Oklahoma U.S. Senators Jim Inhofe and James Lankford openly campaigned for the confirmation, using Senate floor speeches on Thursday to support Judge Gorsuch and at the same …

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Work Resumes on New Mexico’s Largest Wind Farm

The wind turbines are going up in New Mexico’s largest wind farm. The final phase of construction at the $500 million El Cabo Wind Farm in Torrance County is getting underway and more construction workers are arriving this week. State Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn says a jobs report indicated 300 temporary construction jobs were already …

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Nebraska Sets Hearing Date on Keystone XL Pipeline Route

  The Nebraska Public Service Commission has set a hearing to be held in August on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route. The commission will hold a five-day public hearing Aug. 7-11 in Lincoln. It will decide afterward whether to approve the route as requested by developer TransCanada. The $8 billion pipeline would carry oil …

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Digital Research Conference at OSU

Research resources and digital information—it’s the focus of an upcoming inaugural conference at Oklahoma State University. The Coalition for Advancing Digital Research and Education (CADRE) will be held April 11-12. It’s the product of an ongoing collaboration between the OSU High Performance Computing Center and the OSU Libraries’ Research Data Services to bring additional research …

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Full State House to Receive Two More Bills from House Energy Committee

On their way to the State House of Representatives are two bills coming from the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee. One measure calls for changes in the state’s mining laws that focus on the use of explosives in mines. SB 370, carried in committee by Rep. Rick West of LeFlore County amends the mining …

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WTI and Brent Crude Continue Climb on Thursday

Crude oil futures rose again on Thursday as traders looked past growing domestic oil supplies to expectations for a continued pickup in refinery activity and a more favorable global backdrop, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, May West Texas Intermediate crude rose 55 cents, or 1.1%, to settle at $51.70 a …

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