Nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) near San Francisco, California resumed this month after a 10-year pause. The waste was received at WIPP and will be permanently disposed of in the underground repository about 2,000 feet beneath the surface reported the Carlsbad Current-Argus. …
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly touted job creation, opportunities to expand wind farming and potential savings for ratepayers with construction of an electric transmission line to move power from western Kansas to consumers in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. She joined transmission developer Invenergy this week in Topeka to outline benefits of Grain Belt Express, which is …
** U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered his Cabinet secretaries to look into the country’s reliance on rare earths in his latest bid to end China’s dominance of the industry. The move could lead to tariffs, quotas or other possible import restrictions, according to an executive order released on Wednesday. ** Exxon, the largest oil company …
Plugging and cleaning up the open oil and gas wells in Texas could cost companies and taxpayers as much as $117 billion, according to a new report. Carbon Tracker, a nonprofit financial think tank that studies the effects of climate change on financial markets, estimates there are some 3.8 million unplugged oil and gas wells nationally, …
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board plans a third and final part of its webinar series on the agency’s ongoing work to revise the total phosphorous criterion for the protection of the aesthetics of the Illinois River Watershed. The third presentation will again inform stakeholders and others of the ongoing work by the OWRB staff …
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s summer-time request to activate an Oklahoma-specific provision in the 2005 federal highway bill giving state agencies “primacy” on environmental regulations in Indian Country. The governor made his request in July following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established much of the state to still …
Completion reports filed on October 2, 2020. CANADIAN COUNTY Camino Natural Resources Llc Mississippi Lime(10974): Oil 289 Gas 3832 Water 2085 Flow 10 11N 8W Paul Harvey 1108 10-15-1mxh, July 26, 2020 HH, OIL, TD: 18825 ft Lat: 35.44158, Long: -98.02702 API: 35017256110000 PAWNEE COUNTY Hall Greg Oil & Gas Llc Cleveland(1556): Oil 15 Pump 36 20N 8E Crossroads 5-36, August 18, 2020 SH, …
Permits to drill issued on October 2, 2020. Carter County SW WILDCAT JIM DEESE UNIT #17-1, September 24 2020 12 2S 3W CNWNESE API: 01904832 Lat: 34.39704305555692, Long: -97.46072320783938 MACK ENERGY CO SH, RE, 5400 ft, DEESE(5400) Noble County LINNAEUS #1-3, October 02 2020 03 24N 1W CNENE API: 10324106 Lat: 36.59196026141525, Long: -97.2848686672447 KODA OPERATING LLC …
