2020 archive

Kansas utility continues to collect fee on solar customers despite court ruling

  Five months after the Kansas Supreme Court ruled it illegal, Evergy continues to collect a demand fee from customers who own solar panels. “It’s an injustice that even though this was declared unlawful, they still can keep it on the books,” said Zack Pistora, who represents the Kansas Sierra Club, one of the groups …

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NGL Energy Partners LP Announces Quarterly Cash Distribution for Class B and Class C Preferred Units

    NGL Energy Partners LP announced an increased quarterly distribution of 56 to 60 cents a share on some of its units. The Tulsa company said the distribution for the quarter ending September 30, 2020 will be paid to holders of its 9% Class B Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Units and its …

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North Dakota saw increased oil production in July

  North Dakota oil production jumped to more than 1 million barrels a day in July for the first time in two months but remained below its peak as the coronavirus pandemic continued to hamper output in the state’s Bakken shale field, a state official said this week. Crude oil output rose about 20% to …

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Permits to drill for September 15, 2020

Permits to drill issued on September 15, 2020. Grady County MIDDLEBERG SWD #1, September 15 2020 20 7N 5W NENWNWNW API: 05124799 Lat: 35.072206880287325, Long: -97.7575065711101 PERMIAN ROUSTABOUT & OILFIELD SH, DR, 8000 ft, VIRGILIAN(3600), MISSOURIAN(6800) Tulsa County BIRD CREEK UNIT 30 #R J #1, September 15 2020 30 21N 13E SWSENESE API: 14324333 Lat: 36.268317436061736, Long: …

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Completion reports for September 15, 2020

Completion reports filed on September 15, 2020. CARTER COUNTY Continental Resources Inc Woodford(12853): Oil 91 Gas 3240 Water 4567 Flow 16 2S 2W Wagner 1-17hw, November 23, 2019 HH, GAS, TD: 18388 ft Lat: 34.37673, Long: -97.42145 API: 35019263370002 KINGFISHER COUNTY Chisholm Oil & Gas Operating Llc Mississippi Lime(7697): Oil 231 Gas 418 Water 2405 Esp 26 18N 8W Laredo 18-08-23 1h, September 03, 2018 HH, …

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Gains were few and far between for many energy firms in Tuesday’s trading

  Tuesday proved to be mostly a down day for many Oklahoma related energy stocks. Alliance Resource Partners was an exception as its shares jumped 8 cents for a 2.51% gain to $3.27. Blueknight Energy Partners rose 3 cents for a 2.05% gain to $1.49. Chesapeake Energy was down 9 cents for a 1.80% loss …

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Oil, natural-gas futures end higher as Hurricane Sally disrupts Gulf of Mexico energy production

  Oil futures got a lift Tuesday as Hurricane Sally neared landfall, forcing the shutdown of more than a quarter of offshore Gulf of Mexico crude production and a number of refineries. Nearly 27% of Gulf oil production and about 28% of natural-gas production has been shut in as of Tuesday, according to the Bureau of …

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Judge won’t let church expand its lawsuit against oil and gas firms in Bristow

  A Tulsa federal judge has ruled against a request by the Bristow First Assembly of God in its efforts to extend the number of defendants and deadlines in its lawsuit over a Superfund site that forced the church to move nearly six years ago. U.S. District Judge Terence C. Kern ruled against the church …

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Google’s fossil-free plan includes its operations in Pryor

  Google announced an ambitious plan this week to run its operations in northeast Oklahoma and across the world totally on carbon-free energy 2030. The company said it already has purchased enough carbon offsets to cancel all the planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions released by the company since its founding in 1998. Google’s Oklahoma data center …

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Judge dismisses wind farm developer’s lawsuit in Hutchinson, Kansas

  A Reno County District Court judge in south central Kansas has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a wind farm developer embroiled in a legal fight to build the Pretty Prairie Wind farm near Hutchinson. The dismissal came after developer Pretty Prairie Wind LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy filed a motion to dismiss the …

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