January 2, 2020 archive

Completion reports for January 2, 2020

Completion reports filed for January 2, 2020. DEWEY COUNTY Tapstone Energy Llc Mississippian: Oil 61 Gas 2942 Water 1192 Flow 27 18N 17W Borden 22-18-17 1h, December 21, 2017 HH, GAS, TD: 17013 ft Lat: 36.01338, Long: -99.00804 API: 35043235630000 KINGFISHER COUNTY Sk Nemaha Llc Mississippian(6827): Oil 512.73 Gas 394 Water 590 Pump 35 19N 6W Phyllis 35-m3bh, June 13, 2018 HH, OIL, TD: 12150 ft …

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Permits to drill for January 2, 2020

Permits to drill issued on January 2, 2020. Blaine County RANDALL ##3-10H, June 12 2019 10 15N 10W SESWSESW API: 01124221 Lat: 35.7840284570322, Long: -98.25435043091105 UNIT PETROLEUM COMPANY HH, AM, 15100 ft, MISSISSIPPI(10150) Blaine County STERLING SWD #1, December 31 2019 33 16N 13W CSESE API: 01122021 Lat: 35.81412726859071, Long: -98.58115674552201 S & S STAR OPERATING LLC …

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Energy news in brief

** The Minnesota Court of Appeals rules that state regulators must consider the environmental impacts for a proposed natural gas plant in Superior, Wisconsin, dealing a setback to the project. ** A developer cancels plans for a 31-turbine wind project in western Michigan due to “stringent” restrictions, though local officials share a different account. ** A company completed the acquisition of two ethanol plants …

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Environmental group to start year-long methane study of Permian Basin

Oil and gas drillers in the Permian Basin will soon find themselves targeted by an environmental group seeking to support its claims of high methane emissions from oil and gas wells. The Denver Post reports a Boulder company, Scientific Aviation will track methane emissions as part of a project organized by the Environmental Defense Fund. …

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Wyoming seeks to trim oil and gas drilling

Oklahoma energy companies who are active in drilling in Wyoming might soon encounter more difficulties in obtaining permits to drill in the state. A new rule has taken effect as Wyoming wants to trim drilling activity and do it by reducing the record number of applications for permits to drill the oil and gas wells. …

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Nation’s biggest solar farm nears approval by Trump administration

While President Trump has been critical of wind and solar projects, his administration is set to approve what would be the largest solar farm in the U.S. It will be a 690 MW operation with 380 MW of 4-hour battery storage. NV Energy’s Gemini solar-plus-storage project will cost around $38.44 per megawatt-hour under a 25-year contract …

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NextEra encounters delays in latest wind farm project

NextEra Energy Resources, the company that has wind farm operations in Oklahoma and encountered problems with plans for two more has to wait for a decision from South Dakota regulators regarding a wind farm project there. The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission deferred making a decision on whether to temporarily waive an energy company’s requirement …

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Another AEP wind farm project is canceled

Months after American Electric Power’s Public Service Company of Oklahoma canceled a controversial wind farm project across northern Oklahoma, AEP has done the same thing after encountering tough restrictions in Michigan. Melissa McHenry, director of external communications with American Electric Power, told the Muskegon Chronicle  that the project was no longer viable because of several …

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Tribes go to court against Oklahoma Governor Stitt

Scattered throughout Oklahoma’s energy fields of oil wells, wind and solar farms and transmission lines are dozens and dozens of Indian tribal casinos. And they are the source of the fight between the tribes and Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt—a fight that now has gone to federal court. Hours before the start of 2020, the Cherokee, …

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Williams files rate settlement with FERC

  Tulsa’s Williams has filed a settlement agreement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission over a pending rate case of its Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC. Under the Stipulation and Agreement with FERC, Williams agreed to a rate moratorium good through August of 2021. In filing the settlement, Williams indicated it expects FERC approval …

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