Landowners in the area popularly known as “Hills Country” in South have filed a federal suit against the government over a proposed major natural gas pipeline that will serve the Permian Basin oil field in Texas. The suit accuses the developers of skirting environmental law. In a lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court …
January 2020 archive
Arkansas regulators to decide who’ll pay for year-old stump fire
The $4 million price tag on an underground trash fire that burned for nearly a year in northwest Arkansas remains the focus of state hearings over who will pay for it. Bella Vista Property Owners Association challenged the state’s original decision to force it to pay but the State’s Pollution Control and Ecology Commission wants …
Triumph Energy scores big with 4 sister wells in STACK
Tulsa’s Triumph Energy Partners, LLC claims it is focused on acquisition and development of resources in the STACK play and that focus paid off in the past year when four sister wells ended up with combined production of more than 3,000 barrels of oil a day. The four Copeland wells, located at 36 15N 8W …
Oil patch jobs take a more than 12% plunge in Oklahoma
While new jobless figures for Oklahoma show the December 2019 jobless rate stayed at 3.4% from November, the numbers in the oil and gas industry were showing dismal signs of the energy slowdown. The state’s jobless rate compared to 3.5% for the U.S. and showed 62,990 out of Oklahoma’s workforce of 1,846,283 were out of …
Energy news in brief
** Baker Hughes announced that the Baker Hughes Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $.18 per share of Class A common stock payable on February 14, 2020 to holders of record on February 3, 2020. ** North Dakota regulators signal they will not impose conditions beyond those required by the federal government on a plan to double the capacity of the Dakota …
Rig count slips nationally—holds steady in Oklahoma
The latest oil and gas rig figures from Baker Hughes show the U.S. count dropped slightly in the past week while the number of rigs in Oklahoma remained steady. The national count dropped by two to 794. A breakdown showed the number of oil rigs rose by three to 676 while the number of gas …
Completion reports for January 24, 2020
Completion reports filed on January 24, 2020. BLAINE COUNTY Chisholm Oil & Gas Operating Llc Mississippi Lime(8940): Oil 872 Gas 4938 Water 1782 Esp 36 18N 11W Sean O’brien 18-11-36 1mh, June 18, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 14285 ft Lat: 35.98611, Long: -98.31902 API: 35011241930000 CARTER COUNTY Citation Oil & Gas Corporation 18 1S 3W Franklin Unit (Franklin-green Unit 1) 13-1w, October …
Permits to drill for January 24, 2020
Permits to drill issued for January 24, 2020. Grady County TYLER #2H-36-1, January 24 2020 36 10N 6W NWNWNENW API: 05124751 Lat: 35.304566246887305, Long: -97.79001560843439 CITIZEN ENERGY III LLC HH, DR, 9850 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(9800) Grady County TYLER #1H-36-1, January 24 2020 36 10N 6W NWNWNENW API: 05124750 Lat: 35.304648665402084, Long: -97.79001560379518 CITIZEN ENERGY III LLC HH, DR, …
Charges dismissed against Dakota Access pipeline protester
A Dakota Access pipeline protester hit with a charge three years after the 2016 demonstrations in North Dakota has been freed of the charges. A judge and prosecutors agreed the charges against Lawrence Malcolm Jr. had been filed past a two-year statute of limitations. Prosecutors had accused the Sisseton, South Dakota man of being part …
Oilman’s Houston home sale price cut by $5 million
The Houston Chronicle reports the River Oaks home of energy mogul and legendary wildcatter Gene Van Dyke has seen a series of price reductions over the past several years. The latest? More than $5 million. It hit the market at $14.5 million in 2013 but was temporarily removed and then re-listed in 2016 for $10.5 million, according to …