March 19, 2020 archive

Completion reports for March 19, 2020

Completion reports issued for March 19, 2020. BLAINE COUNTY Marathon Oil Company Mississippi(10882): Oil 1862 Gas 3410 Water 2254 Flow 3 15N 11W Hr Potter 1511 9-3-34mxh, September 21, 2018 HH, OIL, TD: 21561 ft Lat: 35.79857, Long: -98.35342 API: 35011239980001 CADDO COUNTY Citation Oil & Gas Corporation Permian: 4 5N 9W E.cement (Petree 3a) 1-3, February 21, 2020 SH, PLUG, TD: …

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Permits to drill for March 19, 2020

Permits to drill issued on March 19, 2020. Carter County SW WILDCAT JIM DEESE UNIT #20-1, March 19 2020 07 2S 2W NWNWNWSE API: 01926378 Lat: 34.39704375219496, Long: -97.44830479841 MACK ENERGY CO SH, DR, 4400 ft, DEESE(2700) Carter County SW WILDCAT JIM DEESE UNIT #20-2, March 19 2020 07 2S 2W NESWNWSE API: 01926379 Lat: 34.39551336059667, Long: …

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Crude oil prices rebound for largest percentage increase in 37 years

Crude oil prices rebounded by more than 23% on Thursday in trading in the U.S. with the front-month April West Texas Intermediate crude contract going up $4.85 and ending the day at $25.22 a barrel. It was considered to be the largest one-day front-month percentage climb on  recorded based on information going back to March …

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Energy news in brief

** Democrats on both sides of Capitol Hill are pushing to add climate change provisions to the third aid package for people and industries affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic. ** The Minnesota Supreme Court agrees to hear a case involving the environmental review of a utility’s proposed investment in a $700 million natural gas plant in Superior, Wisconsin. …

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Energy industry workers ill with coronavirus

The coronavirus is hitting the nation’s energy industry, directly and indirectly. Some in Oklahoma City and others around the country. Oklahoma City’s Devon Energy took a direct hit this week when one of its employees in its headquarters in downtown tested positive for the coronavirus. Company spokesman John Porretto said the employee is receiving medical …

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North Dakota Senator wants embargo on oil from Russia/Saudi Arabia

North Dakota Republican U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer is urging President Trump to place an embargo on crude oil from Russia, Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations. Representing the state with the second-largest oil production, Cramer wrote the President this week said he should adopt the embargo “to avoid substantial domestic layoffs, displacement, and financial impacts.” …

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Pipelines, utilities guard against coronavirus but keep gas flowing

Pipeline companies are reporting few if any disruptions in their operations because of the coronavirus pandemic around the globe. Magellan Midstream Partners LP spokesperson Bruce Heine in Tulsa wrote in an email to S & P Global that the oil pipeline operator has “implemented a number of measures” to keep staff safe. North American natural …

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Biofuels plant proposal under FBI probe in Kansas City

Attempts to convert a former power plant into a biofuels operations in Kansas City have drawn the interest of the FBI. The Kansas City Star reported that two individuals involved in controversial energy projects in Independence that have drawn FBI scrutiny submitted a formal proposal to help repurpose a separate, soon-to-be shuttered city power plant. …

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Missouri Supreme Court upholds decision by court of appeals on Grain Belt Express

  The transmission line to carry southwest Kansas wind powered electricity across Missouri and into Illinois still has life after a court ruling this week. The Missouri Supreme Court upheld the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District’s 2019 decision reaffirming a PSC decision that approved a certificate of need and necessity for the Grain Belt …

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Ovintiv follows announced drilling cuts with well completion

Just a few days after Denver-based Ovintiv announced the slashing of spending and drilling operations and intentions to have only two active rigs in Oklahoma, the firm filed what might be one of the last completion reports for a while in the state. The company completed the Taylor 7-5-15-10-21h well at 17 7N 5W southwest …

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