While oil prices have tumbled to a 7 month low and are near the $43 a barrel range, U.S. petroleum refineries are running at a record pace. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports gross inputs to the refineries averaged 17.7 million barrels a day for the week ending May 26 before they dropped slightly to …
June 2017 archive
Tribes Cannot Add President Trump as Defendant in Dakota Access Oil Pipeline
The American Indian tribes who sued over the Dakota Access oil pipeline and tried to include President Trump have until Tuesday to respond to a federal judge who ruled they could not add the President as a defendant. But U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is allowing the individual members of the tribes to join the …
Democratic Representative Starts Oil and Gas Caucus on Capitol Hill
His congressional district includes the Eagle Ford oil play in south Texas and now freshman U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, a Democrat is creating a Congressional Oil and Gas Caucus. He says he wants to educate fellow lawmakers about issues related to the oil and gas industry. Rep. Gonzalez wants to focus on the production and …
Inhofe Says FAA Act Includes More Protection for Pilots
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe has been a pilot longer than he has been a Senator and has come out in strong support of the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2017. After all, it includes some of his priorities including his Fairness for Pilots Act and the FLIGHT Act. “It is comprehensive and will …
GOP Candidate to Sue Over Fund-Raising Bills
More legal challenges are being threatened over Oklahoma’s fund raising bills passed last month by the legislature and signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin. Some deal with energy issues including electric cars. Gary Richardson, a former U.S. Attorney who is running for the Republican nomination for Governor says he plans to file suit in …
WTI and Brent Crude Post Gains on Thursday
Oil futures finished slightly higher Thursday, with a second weekly decline in domestic crude supplies helping prices recoup some of their recent losses, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. August West Texas Intermediate crude advanced 21 cents, or 0.5%, to settle at $42.74 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On the London ICE Futures Exchange, August …
Completion Reports June 23, 2017
CANADIAN COUNTY Citizen Energy Ii Llc Woodford: Oil 220 Gas 1644 Flow 10 11N 6W Kanon 1h-15-22, September 18, 2016 HH, OIL, TD: 18678 ft Lat: 35.43636, Long: -97.81552 API: 35017249040000 Devon Energy Production Co Lp Woodford(11436): Oil 130 Gas 593 Water 2294 Flow 29 13N 8W Bland 29-13n-8w 10h, May 03, 2017 HH, …
Permits to Drill June 23, 2017
Blaine County ANGUS TRUST #11-33-4XH, March 22 2017 33 15N 12W NENWNENE API: 01123768 Lat: 35.739143232791186, Long: -98.47596461007583 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC HH, AM, 22429 ft, MISSISSIPPI SOLID(11932) Blaine County ANGUS TRUST #12-33-4XH, March 22 2017 33 15N 12W NENWNENE API: 01123769 Lat: 35.73914323549183, Long: -98.47586352617263 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC HH, AM, 22304 ft, MISSISSIPPI SOLID(11927) …
Inhofe’s Influence at EPA Grows
Make it at least five, maybe six former staffers of Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe at the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee to move on to the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s clear the 82-year old republican Senator is having an impact on the giant agency he has criticized under the Obama administration. The latest …
Environmental Group Claims Clean Power Plan Rollback Will Result in Job Losses
Environmentalists now claim the move by President Trump and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to kill the Clean Power Plan will cost the U.S. economy a chance to add 560,000 jobs and $52 billion in gross domestic product by 2030. It’s the claim made by a national business group named Environmental Entrepreneurs which issued a new …