Oklahoma Gas and Electric says it is asking the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to review the company request to receiver a nearly $390 million investment in the Mustang Energy Center. In announcing the move, OGE said it initially planned to seek a rate hike of about $70 million a year to recover its investment in …
January 18, 2018 archive
Pruitt’s Latest World Trip——Japan
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s becoming more and more of a world traveler in his leadership capacity for the Trump administration. Not only is the former Oklahoma Attorney General planning to visit Israel Jan. 26-28 in a trip that’s been highly criticized by his detractors, now Pruitt’s heading to Japan. He’ll make the trip to Japan …
Customer Commitments Prompt TransCanada to Move Ahead With Keystone XL Pipeline
If the commercial commitments for a Keystone XL pipeline are anything, it’s enough for TransCanada to move ahead with the development of the controversial line. The Canadian company said Thursday the commitments represent about 60 percent of the capacity for the line that will carry crude oil from Canada through Montana and South Dakota and …
Wind Industry Spokesman Denies Being Involved in Tracking Anti-Wind Legislator
Reckless. It’s what the head of the Wind Coalition says about an Oklahoma legislator’s belief that the wind industry was behind the tracking device found on the legislator’s pickup truck last month. Jeffrey Clark, President of the Coalition denied any suggestion by Rep. Mark McBride, a Republican from Moore. “I feel confident that this industry …
Major County Site of Big Chesapeake Energy Well
One of the largest wells to be drilled in weeks in northwest Oklahoma was in Major County. The Bravo 28-20-12 1HC well drilled by Chesapeake Operating LLC has produced of 1,760 barrels a day according to the latest reports from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and published by OK Energy Today. Located about 4 miles northeast …
Completion Reports Jan. 11-18
COUNTY Well name OPERATOR SCTN TWN RNG SPOT Completion Date Oil Gas Water Scan Date API Document Blaine CANTELLAY SWD (NIPPERT 17-2) 1 CARRERA ENERGY LLC 17 19N 12W SW NE NW SW Apr-06-2017 Jan-11-2018 01121920 500629556 Caddo EAST BINGER UNIT 67-2 BINGER OPERATIONS LL 4 9N 10W SE SW SW NW Oct-01-2017 Jan-11-2018 01522783 …
Permits to Drill Jan. 11-17
COUNTY Well name Operator HOLE PERMIT SCTN TWN RNG SPOT Approval Date Scan Date API Document Alfalfa LOIS 2412 2H-02 B MIDSTATES PETROLEUM HH DR 1 24N 12W NE NW NW NW Jan-12-2018 Jan-16-2018 00323302 5586206 Blaine DONMAR RANCH FlU 1-7-18XH CONTINENTAL RESOURCE HH RC 6 13N 12W NE SW SE SE Jan-16-2018 Jan-17-2018 01123693 …
Former Iowa Governor Turns Wind Energy Efforts into Lobbying Job
As the governor of Iowa from 2007 to 2011, Chet Culver was credited with development of his state’s renewable energy efforts. Now he’s going to work doing lobbying work with a Washington, D-C based energy company. Culver has joined Green Generation Solutions LLC as a senior advisor to “enhance and augment the firm’s work in …
Oklahoma Gasoline Prices Jump 7 cents in Past Week
Gasoline prices jumped an average of 7 cents in the past week in Oklahoma to reach an average of $2.32 a gallon, according to the latest fuel gauge report from AAA Oklahoma. Credit a two-year high demand for gasoline across the U.S. The new average is 23 cents below the national average which rose 4 …
Northwest Oklahoma to Get Another Wind Farm
Oklahoma is getting yet another big wind farm. Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners based in New York announced this week plans for nearly quarter of a billion dollar Persimmon Project in northwest Oklahoma Capable of producing an estimated 900,000 megawatt hours of renewable power every year, the nearly $268 million project will go up in Woodward, Dewey …