December 10, 2020 archive

Oklahoma’s latest wind farm approaches completion

  A 74-turbine wind farm in northern Oklahoma is nearing completion near Newkirk. Duke Energy Renewables announced this week only 16 towers of the Frontier II wind farm remain to be finished before electricity is produced from the Kay County operation. Frontier II is an extension of Frontier Windpower which has been operational since 2016. …

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Biofuel groups and DOJ push their legal fight over biofuels

  Some biofuels groups are not finished in their fight to stop 31 oil refineries including one in Oklahoma from receiving exemptions from U.S. biofuel blending obligations. Neither is the Justice Department. A coalition of biofuel operators filed a brief this week with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the Trump administration’s 2019 decision …

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Devon Energy gets bullish on new STACK drilling

(Devon’s energy goal in STACK?) We stand corrected! Devon Energy is not drilling a four-well single pad in Blaine County as reported earlier in the week, a report based on permits to drill issued earlier by state regulators. It will be a six-well pad. Two more permits to drill at the same site near the …

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COVID vaccine promises holding oil prices up

  Despite an increase in U.S. crude oil stockpiles oil prices continued to hang around the $48 a barrel mark in this week’s trading and it apparently is because of the growing news about COVID-19 vaccines making their way around the world. With the vaccine already being used in Great Britain and other countries seeing …

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