December 2020 archive

McCarthy to be energy czar and expand on her former EPA policies

  She’s baaaack.  Gina McCarthy, the former EPA Administrator under the Obama administration who brought methane regulations for the oil and gas industry and introduced the Waters of the US rule is being picked to be President-elect Biden’s ‘climate czar.’ As such, McCarthy will coordinate domestic climate response across federal agencies. After leaving the EPA …

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Oil and gas revenue flow continues to fall in Oklahoma

  Oklahoma government leaders are learning the cold hard truth of what the COVID-19 pandemic has done to the state’s oil and gas industry as they reported a 4.5% drop in general revenue fund collections from a year ago for the month of November. Here’s how the sobering news hit them. November gross production tax …

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Biden picks Buttigieg to be his Transportation Secretary

You might know him as the gay Democratic Presidential candidate  who wants to take guns from Americans, but get ready to know much more about Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. President-elect Biden has picked him to be his Secretary of Transportation in a Biden administration. The 38-year old Buttigieg will be …

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Pipeline operator seeks new investors

  Kansas City-based pipeline operator Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP is looking for more investors as it announced an offering of $750 million in senior unsecured notes for sale. Tallgrass and its subsidiary, Tallgrass Energy Finance Corporation made the offering of 6.000% notes due 2030 at an offering price equal to 100% of par. The offering …

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Nation’s latest wind farm is in northern Colorado

  The country’s latest wind project to go operational is the Mountain Breeze Wind Farm in northern Colorado’s Weld County, home to a lot of oil and gas drilling operations. Leeward Renewable Energy, LLC based in Dallas announced the farm had reached commercial operation and it had closed the funding under its tax equity financing …

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Energy news in brief

** The U.S. Energy Department on Tuesday finalized two rules easing energy standards on consumer fixtures and appliances, including one on shower heads after President Donald Trump complained some showers don’t adequately rinse his hair. ** The Star Tribune reported that 22 pipeline protesters were arrested for trespassing this week at a Line 3 construction site in Minnesota.  ** The …

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API’s Environmental Partnership launches new program to reduce flaring

  The American Petroleum Institute’s Environmental Partnership announced the launching of a performance program focused on reduction of flaring in upstream operations. The API said the flare management program is an expansion on the Partnership’s core mission which recently added midstream operations. It also represents more than 70% of total onshore U.S. oil and natural …

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Walmart to use driverless delivery trucks in Arkansas

  Get ready. Driverless Walmart trucks are coming soon. The Arkansas-based company said it plans to use fully autonomous box trucks to make deliveries starting in 2021, at least in Arkansas. Walmart’s worked with Gatik on a delivery pilot over the past year and a half according to The Verge.   Click here for story …

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Completion reports for December 15, 2020

Completion reports filed on December 15, 2020. completions: none were processed today

Drilling permits for December 15, 2020

Drilling permits issued on December 15, 2020. permits: none were processed today