While the Oklahoma State Fair has been canceled because of concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson will go on but with restrictions. Among the public health changes will be a requirement to wear face masks while indoors. Masks will be recommended but not required at all other times according …
SCRIBESign In Oil drilling produces up to 10 gallons of water for every barrel of oil. While the Environmental Protection Agency has balked at allowing oil companies to treat drilling wastewater and discharge it into streams, oil rich states, including Texas, are moving forward with plans to permit it. Environmental officials in Texas and other …
More bankruptcies and layoffs are hitting Oklahoma although it is not directly in the state’s energy field. Still, it has an impact. NPC, owner of Pizza Huts in Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma filed for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy. The filing, according to Bill Hancock, the Business Services and Rapid Response Coordinator at the Oklahoma …
New Mexico State Land officials have already used satellite imagery to track pollution in the Permian Basin and now want to employ it to crack down on trespassing and mineral theft from the State Trust land. The office recently began a pilot program with commercial aerospace company Planet, to design and use Earth-imaging satellites …
Oklahoma’s STACK play yields a three-well project with production of more than 2,200 barrels of oil a day for Oklahoma City’s Devon Energy. Devon filed completion reports this week on the three McCarthy 10_3-1n-9w wells drilled on a single pad at 10 15N 9W, a site 13 miles southwest of the city of Kingfisher. …
The fight over biofuels waivers given to small refineries such as the Wynnewood refinery in southern Oklahoma has prompted Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley to block the nomination of an official at the Environmental Protection Agency. Grassley came out Tuesday saying he supporting a plan by a Senate colleague to block the nomination until …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett easily won the Republican nomination in his re-election bid during Tuesday’s primary election. With 84% of the state’s more than 500 precincts reporting last night, Hiett had a massive lead over challenger Harold Spradling. Candidate Choice Absentee Mail Early Voting Election Day Total Votes Percent HAROLD D SPRADLING …
Completion reports filed on June 30, 2020. CANADIAN COUNTY Red Bluff Resources Operating Llc Mississippian: Oil 333 Gas 1038 Water 788 Pump 23 13N 6W Robert 1306 2-23mh, February 01, 2020 HH, OIL, TD: 13830 ft Lat: 35.59297, Long: -97.81464 API: 35017255590002 CARTER COUNTY Continental Resources Inc 12 2S 3W Essex 1-12-13-24xhw, April 05, 2020 DH, PLUG, TD: 9607 ft Lat: 34.39283, …
Permits to drill issued on June 30, 2020. Garvin County ISLANDS #1-34-35XHW, June 30 2020 34 1N 1W W2NWNWNW API: 04925327 Lat: 34.52042107613854, Long: -97.29914139562541 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC MU, DR, 20094 ft, SYCAMORE(12754), HUNTON(13411), WOODFORD(13504) Kay County BEVERLIN #A-7, June 30 2020 34 25N 1W CN2SENW API: 07124221 Lat: 36.603717100527504, Long: -97.29392500834818 KODA OPERATING LLC SH, RC, …
Crude prices both in the U.S. and in Europe slipped late Tuesday when the American Petroleum Institute reported U.S. crude supplies fell by 8.2 million barrels for the week ended June 26. West Texas Intermediate August crude dropped 43 cents or more than 1% to settle at $39.27 a barrel in trading on the …
