2017 archive

Fate of Anti-Flaring Rule in Doubt in U.S. Senate

Some questions remain whether Republicans in the U.S. Senate have the votes to go ahead and put an end to methane regulations introduced by the Obama administration. So far, there is nothing on the Senate calendar indicating a vote might come on a move to kill the Bureau of Land Management’s Methane and Waste Prevention …

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Gasoline Prices Hold Steady at $2.12 a gallon in Oklahoma

  Gasoline prices are holding steady in Oklahoma over the past week according to the latest report from AAA Oklahoma. The State’s average of $2.12 is the same as one week ago and only one penny more than a month ago. The average in Tulsa is $2.08 a gallon, down one cent from last week …

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Veteran Legislator Wants Tax Credits Eliminated for Wind Industry

The Oklahoma House of Representatives could vote this week on a bill eliminating the tax credits for the wind industry. Rep. Leslie Osborn (R-Mustang) calls it a reasonable thing to do. And she should know. She’s chairwoman of the House Appropriations and Budget Committee. As head of the committee, Osborn has dealt with all of …

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CERAWeek Houston Conference Features Pruitt and Hamm as Keynote Speakers

Two of Oklahoma’s prominent energy leaders will provide insight at a weeklong conference this week in Texas. Marking his first public address since confirmation as the new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Scott Pruitt will speak at a keynote luncheon for oil and gas industry leaders and government officials in Houston. Pruitt will speak about …

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Growing Concern Over Production Sinks Crude Oil Futures on Monday

As signs of further domestic growth in crude production worried traders, oil futures fell slightly on Monday, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, April West Texas Intermediate crude fell 13 cents, or 0.2%, to settle at $53.20 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On the London ICE Futures Exchange, the …

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Completion Reports March 7, 2017

  BLAINE COUNTY Continental Resources Inc Hunton(11085): Oil 125 Gas 1128 Water 2704 Gas Lift 24 16N 11W Donna Mae 2-13h, November 29, 2016 HH, OIL, TD: 16314 ft Lat: 35.85406, Long: -98.31892 API: 35011236610000 Continental Resources Inc Mississippian(ex Chester): Oil 1130 Gas 2841 Water 1210 Flow 4 16N 11W Wintersole 1-4-33-28xh, January 08, 2017 …

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Permits to Drill March 7, 2017

  Carter County OIL CITY UNIT #59, March 06 2017 27 3S 2W SENWSENW API: 01926270 Lat: 34.26943029857037, Long: -97.39878262699371 KODIAK OIL & GAS INC SH, DR, 1150 ft, PONTOTOC(850) Garfield County SMITTY #2-13H, March 06 2017 12 23N 5W SWSESESE API: 04725088 Lat: 36.47751900289334, Long: -97.67695462780043 SK PLYMOUTH LLC HH, DR, 11076 ft, MISSISSIPIAN(5656) …

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Energy Workers Find Homeless Man Living in Stairwell

Workers in one building at Chesapeake Energy’s Oklahoma City campus had quite a surprise in February when they found a 40-year old man living in the stairwell. A police report shows James Lloyd Blackmon, 40 was arrested on Feb. 21 after employees found he had “set up camp inside one of their buildings.”  The report …

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Inhofe’s Appointments in Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

The Republican and Democratic leaders of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee have finalized and announced the membership of the committee’s four subcommittees. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, former chairman of the full committee was named chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee. He also sits on the Clean Air and Nuclear Safety subcommittee …

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Kansas to Get Another Ethanol Plant

Oklahoma doesn’t have one but Kansas is getting another bio-refinery. The $175 million plant being built by ethanol pioneer ICM is going up in Colwich, a small town at the northwest side of the city of Wichita. Called ICM Element, the plant will produce 70 million galls a year of ethanol. An estimated 50 permanent …

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