2020 archive

Oklahoma’s rig count held while nationally the numbers grew in past week

  The numbers are still dismal and representative of what the COVID-19 pandemic has done to the oil and gas industry, but Oklahoma’s rig count held steady at 11 in the past week. Nationally, the count of active oil and gas rigs grew by two to reach 256. Oklahoma’s count of 11 compared to 75 …

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Completion reports for September 4, 2020

Completion reports filed on September 4, 2020. DEWEY COUNTY Tapstone Energy Llc Mississippian (less Up Chester): Oil 205 Gas 2310 Water 2147 Flow 33 20N 17W Fred 4-19-17 2h, January 12, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 15516 ft Lat: 36.15947, Long: -99.02420 API: 35043236690000 MCCLAIN COUNTY Warwick-bacchus Llc Woodford(9691): Oil 187 Gas 138 Water 1124 Pump 31 7N 3W Calvert 0603-6-7 1whx, March 15, 2020 HH, OIL, …

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Permits to drill for September 4, 2020

Permits to drill issued on September 4, 2020. Grady County BRIDGE CREEK #1H-14, September 04 2020 14 9N 5W SENENENW API: 05124797 Lat: 35.25581300405006, Long: -97.69814724115552 CITIZEN ENERGY III LLC HH, DR, 14805 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(9500) Grady County BRIDGE CREEK #1H-11-2, September 04 2020 14 9N 5W SENENENW API: 05124798 Lat: 35.26057781316187, Long: -97.69824725384683 CITIZEN ENERGY III LLC …

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Energy stocks slipped again in Friday’s trading

  Energy stocks on Friday followed the parallel path of a down day on Wall Street with only a few exceptions to a loss in trading. Alliance Resource Partners dropped 5 cents or 1.59% to $3.10. Blueknight Energy Partners had a nearly 3 cent or 1.84% gain to $1.52. Chesapeake Energy saw a 2.36% or …

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U.S. oil benchmark ends below $40 a barrel, down over 7% for the week

  While the Dow skidded 600 points on Friday, oil futures closed below $40 a barrel for the first time since early July. The drop contributed to a loss for the week amid concerns over prospects for demand, losses in the stock market and strength in the U.S. dollar pushing prices to their lowest in …

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Energy Sector Pullback Pushes Gross Receipts Lower for Oklahoma Treasury

Gross Receipts to the Treasury slipped by almost five percent in August with oil and gas production taxes the primary driver, State Treasurer Randy McDaniel announced on Friday. August receipts from all sources total $979.5 million and are below collections from August 2019 by $47.3 million, or 4.6 percent. It marks the fifth time since …

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Daimler expands self-driving truck tests on New Mexico public roads

    Soon, the next truck you pass on a New Mexico road might be a self-driving truck. Daimler Trucks and allied vehicle software company Torc Robotics announced the expansion of testing for self-driving trucks to public roads in New Mexico along major long-haul freight routes. The companies have established a new testing center in …

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Downlisting of the American Burying Beetle draws support from Oklahoma groups..they say “it’s about time”

  The decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to downlist the American burying beetle under the Endangered Species Act drew support this week from U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, the Oklahoma National Guard, U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin, the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma and others. The government downlisted the beetle from endangered to threatened. “Downlisting …

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North Dakota’s request to dismiss road closure suit denied

  A federal judge has denied North Dakota’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed over the five-month closure of a section of highway during the large protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The Associated Press reported the federal lawsuit brought by members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and a reservation priest in 2018 …

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Revived Iowa ethanol plant would make RNG to meet demand in California

  A German bioenergy company is preparing to produce corn ethanol and renewable natural gas at the site of a failed cellulosic ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa. Verbio Vereinigte BioEnergie AG is building an anaerobic digester on the site that will annually convert up to 100,000 tons of corn stover — a crop leftover consisting …

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