Wyoming’s Powder River Basin isn’t an area known only for growing oil production that attracted some major oil and gas drillers from Oklahoma, but its coal industry has been a major player for decades. However, the coal industry in Wyoming is hurting. Just ask the hundreds who have lost their jobs in the past several …
2020 archive
Oil industry studies more crude storage capacity
From Cushing in northern Oklahoma to the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico, the talk is growing of how to quickly expand crude oil storage capacity, whether it’s more massive tanks at Cushing to underground caverns in the Permian. The North American energy sector is weighing options from building new tanks farms to …
Coal industry hurting in the coronavirus pandemic
Tulsa-based Alliance Resources Inc. isn’t the only major U.S. coal company to lay off workers and suspend some of its mining operations in the Midwest and the East. It is one of many faced with making the same difficult decisions because of the coronavirus pandemic and the lack of demand for fuel to power facilities. …
Energy news in brief
** In response to a recent Keystone XL court ruling, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suspends a program that has been used for decades to approve stream and wetland crossings for pipelines, power lines and other utility projects. ** The Navajo Transitional Energy Company and Peabody Energy announce layoffs of 300 miners at three Powder River Basin mines. ** Morgan Stanley …
Stephens County has been kind to active Ovintiv
Ovintiv Mid-Continent Inc. made it a third well drilled at a Stephens County pad making combined production totaling nearly 1,600 barrels of oil a day. The third completion report was filed Friday with state regulators, showing the Mary J-2-4 well drilled at 24 2N 4W, west of Elmore City, had production of 549 barrels of …
Completion reports for April 23, 2020
Completion reports filed on April 23, 2020. ELLIS COUNTY Fourpoint Energy Llc Cleveland(8926): Oil 227 Gas 461 Water 828 Pump 34 19N 26W Smallmouth 33×4-19-26 1hc, December 15, 2019 HH, GAS, TD: 18351 ft Lat: 36.08126, Long: -99.96918 API: 35045238150000 MCCLAIN COUNTY Casillas Operating Llc Woodford(11865): Oil 765 Gas 1078 Water 1610 Flow 6 5N 4W Jameson 4-6wh, September 20, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 16995 ft …
Permits to drill for April 23, 2020
Permits to drill issued on April 23, 2020. Canadian County JJ CALE 1107 #23-14-1MXH, April 23 2020 23 11N 7W NWNENWSW API: 01725623 Lat: 35.41288693659815, Long: -97.91671923769665 CAMINO NATURAL RESOURCES LLC MU, DR, 18061 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(10042), WOODFORD(10258) Hughes County WEST WETUMKA #5-1 SWD, April 23 2020 05 9N 10E SESWNWSW API: 06324914 Lat: 35.27987027971905, Long: -96.28045313431423 RIVERSIDE …
Completion reports for April 24, 2020
Completion reports filed for April 24, 2020. KINGFISHER COUNTY Chisholm Oil & Gas Operating Llc Mississippi Lime(8152): Oil 233 Gas 284 Water 646 Esp 19 18N 8W Doris 1808 19-1mh, October 09, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 13143 ft Lat: 36.01499, Long: -98.08674 API: 35073266180000 Chisholm Oil & Gas Operating Llc Mississippi Lime: Oil 152 Gas 92 Water 1127 Esp 7 19N 7W Governor Pease 19-07-18 1mh, …
Permits to drill for April 24, 2020
Permits to drill issued on April 24, 2020. Blaine County NITZEL #4-18 1412MH, February 14 2019 07 14N 12W SWSESWSW API: 01124181 Lat: 35.69693143283155, Long: -98.52251252063925 TRIUMPH ENERGY PARTNERS LLC MU, AM, 17086 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(9750), MISS’AN LM(12445) Garvin County WOLFMAN #1-8, April 24 2020 09 4N 4W NESWNWNW API: 04925326 Lat: 34.83878054370366, Long: -97.63230387361585 RED ROCKS OIL …
Oklahoma’s rig count drops to 20 while US declines by 64
With oil prices less than $20 following a Monday where prices went into the negative range, the nation’s rig count continues to dwindle, losing 64 in the past week according to the Baker Hughes figures released on Friday. Oklahoma lost four more rigs, leaving only 20 actively drilling for oil or gas in the …





