The American burying beetle came out the winner this week when a judge in Nebraska issued a ruling in protection of the insect and against a major electrical transmission line in the state’s Sand Hills. U.S. District Judge William Martinez revoked a federal permit that would have allowed the Nebraska Public Power District to kill …
The oil and gas rig count dropped even more in Oklahoma and the rest of the U.S. in the past week with only 9 rigs drilling in the state. It means more drilling rigs are in storage as the oil and gas industry awaits a turnaround in activity following depressed numbers caused by the …
Oil refineries have filed 52 new, so-called gap year petitions to EPA seeking economic hardship designations from the Renewable Fuel Standard for years going back to 2011. The retroactive petitions mark an effort by companies to make them eligible to receive waivers freeing them from current biofuel blending requirements. EPA’s small refinery exemption dashboard was …
Criminal environmental charges have been filed by the Pennsylvania attorney general against Houston-based Cabot Oil and Gas over allegations of methane gas contamination caused by drilling in the state. More than a decade after a water well exploded in the rural Northeast Pennsylvania town of Dimock, setting off a series of events that would plunge the …
A Texas Appellate Court handed ExxonMobil its latest legal setback—a ruling in the energy company’s fight against California cities and counties that sued to recover damages from climate change. The three justices of the Second Appellate District of Texas set aside a lower court ruling that would have allowed Exxon to dig …
Four people are recovering after being burned in a Thursday gas explosion in Maumelle, Arkansas. It happened shortly before 1 p.m. while workers were repairing a gas line at Edgewood Drive and Woodland Drive, the Maumelle Fire Department said in a Facebook post, according to KATV. The intersection is near a municipal complex that …
Recent completion reports show Roan Resources has been busy in Grady and Canadian Counties with four producers from a single pad west of Union City. The four wells were drilled a 32 11N 8W with combined production of 763 barrels of oil a day. The wells had production of 225, 161, 240 and 137 …
Completion reports filed on June 18, 2020. CANADIAN COUNTY Citizen Energy Iii Llc Woodford(10003): Oil 230 Gas 825 Water 986 Flow 27 14N 8W Heupel 2h-22-15, December 13, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 17587 ft Lat: 35.66668, Long: -98.03640 API: 35017255150001 Citizen Energy Iii Llc Woodford(10020): Oil 244 Gas 946 Water 1014 Flow 27 14N 8W Heupel 1h-22-15, December 03, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 19701 ft Lat: …
Permits to drill issued on June 18, 2020. permits: none were processed today
Crude oil prices were up in Thursday’s trading in the US and in Europe. West Texas Intermediate July futures rose 88 cents or 2.3% a share before settling at $38.84 in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude rose 77 cents or 2% and finished at $41.48 on ICE futures. Natural gas …
