January 2018 archive

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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ONEOK Announces Increase in Quarterly Dividend

Directors at ONEOK, Inc. declared on Wednesday a quarterly increase of its dividend of 2.5 cents a share or 3 percent compared with its prior dividend, bumping the dividend to 77 cents a share. It resulted in an annualized dividend of $3.08 a share and will be payable Feb. 14, 2018 to shareholders of record …

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Icahn and SandRidge Energy Leaders to Meet

Leaders of Oklahoma City’s SandRidge Energy were scheduled to meet Wednesday with investor Carl Icahn over his demands for a shake-up of the company’s board of directors. His demands came after he publicly challenged SandRidge Energy’s proposed $746 million acquisition of Bonanza Creek Energy in Colorado. Icahn and other investigators argued it was too expensive …

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Inhofe to Meet With EPA Chief Pruitt This Week

From Politico’s Morning Energy Report: FOR YOUR RADAR: Sen. Jim Inhofe, a long-time friend and ally of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, told ME the two would have a catch up conversation this week. ME asked Inhofe to see if he could get any more deets on Pruitt’s forthcoming trip to Israel. SPOTTED: Pruitt met with a group of …

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