January 2020 archive

Regulators to decide on Cooperative’s fight with OGE

The fight to determine who provides electrical power to the Tall Oak Woodford Cryo Plant in southeastern Oklahoma goes before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission on Thursday. People’s Electric Cooperative, Inc., based in Ada has been attempting to stop Oklahoma Gas and Electric from serving the plant. The cooperative, in a filing in early 2019 claimed …

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Newfield targets rich oil production area of STACK

  Houston’s Newfield Exploration Mid-Con Inc. is planning four more sister wells in an area of the STACK that had big producers for the company. Located at 29 16N 8W, the four Dan Fiu wells will be located at a site about 8 miles west of Kingfisher. The permits were issued in early December and …

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Continental Resources finishes year with big producers in SCOOP and STACK

Oklahoma City’s Continental Resources Inc. is finishing 2019 with four sister wells producing more than 2,300 barrels of oil a day in the SCOOP. But a fifth well’s production from a site in an adjacent section makes combined production more than 2,500 barrels of oil a day from all five wells. And the company had …

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Straight-hole company continues exploration of Northern Oklahoma

Kansas-based Trans Pacific Oil Corporation continues its straight hole drilling efforts in Northern Oklahoma with the completion of three more wells in Alfalfa and Woods counties. But they were low producing wells out of the Mississippi formation. Known for its straight-hole drilling, the Wichita company completed two wells in Alfalfa County. The Shaw B 1-22, …

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Magazine ranks Oklahoma high for attracting new residents

Some surprising results, and some not-so-surprising are found in Forbes’ latest report on which states people are moving to and those they are fleeing. The magazine ranks Oklahoma number four nationally for states where people are moving to for jobs. Here’s how Forbes described Oklahoma’s attraction: 4. Oklahoma Oklahoma’s economy had been booming, but slumping …

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Biden wants fossil fuel leaders jailed over destruction of environment

Democratic presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden no doubt didn’t score points with Oklahoma oil leaders over the weekend. If he gets his way, they would be put behind bars for harming the environment. During a campaign stop in  Peterborough, New Hampshire, Biden went so far as to state that if fossil fuel …

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Completion reports for December 31, 2019

Completion reports filed on December 31, 2019. BLAINE COUNTY Continental Resources Inc Mississippian(10863): Oil 979 Gas 8243 Water 1746 Flow 1 16N 13W Smoot Quarter Fiu 3-1-12xhm, September 16, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 17851 ft Lat: 35.89798, Long: -98.53646 API: 35011241630000 Continental Resources Inc Mississippian(11047): Oil 1037 Gas 8371 Water 2177 Flow 1 16N 13W Smoot Quarter Fiu 4-1-12xhm, September 15, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 20500 …

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Permits to drill for December 31, 2019

Permits to drill issued for December 31, 2019. Garvin County DWIGHT #1-17, December 30 2019 17 1N 1W S2S2N2SE API: 04924465 Lat: 34.55454931068228, Long: -97.32202794691906 TRIAD ENERGY INC DH, RC, 13212 ft, HOXBAR(3700) Garvin County FOSTER SWD #1, December 31 2019 19 2N 2W SWSESWSW API: 04925207 Lat: 34.623893959031996, Long: -97.45462606002275 S & S STAR OPERATING LLC …

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2020 brings new challenges to OKC’s SandRidge Energy

One of the companies under new leadership and with a correction in its financial course for 2020 is Oklahoma City’s SandRidge Energy, Inc. Last month, it announced a series of actions it said were “designed to improve shareholder value.” SandRidge not only re-evaluated a minimal 2020 capex plan to maximize free cash flow, but the …

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