After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the spring of 2016 and emerging later that year with a reduction of debt by $3.7 billion, Oklahoma City’s SandRidge Energy wrapped up its last paperwork this week on the action. Records in the Southern Texas District of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court show the filing of the …
December 2020 archive
Enid to begin $243 million water line project
The Enid News and Eagle reports Enid’s city council has voted to move ahead with a $243 million 70-mile water line project to carry water from Kaw Lake to the city. It is described as the city’s largest-ever construction project, one that will begin in March and take two and one-half years to …
Montana looks at renewable energy industry to make up lost tax revenue
With struggling coal and oil and gas industries, some legislators in Montana are looking eagerly at raising taxes on the wind and solar operations in the state. As one legislator puts it, there is a need to “level the playing field” on energy taxes. So the Republican-led legislature will consider targeting the wind and …
New Mexico faces call for more methane emissions inspectors
In New Mexico where the governor wants a crackdown on methane emissions from oil and gas wells, some are complaining about the lack of state inspectors to find gas leaks. But funding is a problem as some in the legislature have proposed cuts for the agency responsible for inspections. Click here for the story …
Energy news in brief
** More than 40 environmental, health and community groups are calling on the Biden administration to issue stronger methane emissions standards for new and existing oil and natural gas sites nationwide and cut methane pollution from the oil and gas sector by 65 percent by 2025, according to POLITICO. ** Iraq is poised to sign a …
Xcel wants Colorado customers to pay to add more EV charging
Xcel Energy is telling Colorado leaders that if they want more EV chargers on the road in their lofty goal of adding more electric cars to the state, then they’ll have to help pay for the estimated $130 million tab. The state wants to add 20,000 new residential, commercial and high-speed charging stations to …
Williams adds new member to board of directors
Tulsa’s Williams Cos. added a new member to its Board of Directors, appointing energy industry veteran Rose Robeson as an independent director. The appointment is effective Dec. 10. Robeson was recently the chief financial office of DCP Midstream which is the largest natural gas liquids producer and gas processor in the U.S. She previously …
Devon Energy to drill four-well pad in STACK
Records show Devon Energy is among those energy companies feeling good enough about the economy to do some exploration in Oklahoma’s STACK play. The company received four permits to drill this week reflecting plans for a four-well single-pad well to be drilled in Blaine County. The DICKSON 21_16-15N-10W wells will be located at 21 15N 10W …
Completion reports for December 8, 2020
Completion reports filed on December 8, 2020. GARVIN COUNTY Red Rocks Oil & Gas Operating Llc Simpson (above Oil Creek): Oil 70 Gas 101 Water 106 Pump 5 4N 4W Neva June 3-5, December 05, 2019 DH, OIL, TD: 12305 ft Lat: 34.85104, Long: -97.63891 API: 35049252880000 SEMINOLE COUNTY Hall Greg Oil & Gas Llc 26 8N 5E Fowler 2-26, November 18, …
Permits to drill for December 8, 2020
Permits to drill issued on December 8, 2020. Beaver County ROBINS #1-33, December 07 2020 33 6N 24EC CS2N2SW API: 00723085 STONE OAK OPERATING LLC SH, RC, 6500 ft, TORONTO(4556), CHEROKEE(5813), MORROW SAND(6172) Blaine County DICKSON 21_16-15N-10W #4HX, December 08 2020 21 15N 10W NESESESW API: 01124249 Lat: 35.7551785509974, Long: -98.26989664408879 DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION CO LP MU, …