The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced that the boil order for the Beaver Co. RWD #1 (Turpin), located in Beaver County, has been lifted. The water is now safe for human consumption. The order to boil water was issued due to the presence of E. coli. State and federal regulations require that customers …
After listening to opponents of a proposed wind farm in northeast Nebraska, one county is considering restrictions on the wind project including half-mile setbacks. It’s in Burt County where planning commissioners recently heard opposition to the possible construction of 86 turbines by Con Edison. Some of the turbines would be as tall as 650 …
When a County Planning and Zoning Commission in St. Joseph, Missouri recently voted in support of a proposed total commercial ban on wind energy, the crowd in attendance stood and applauded. Now Buchanan County Commissioners will consider the proposal and Presiding Commissioner Lee Sawyer said that the commissioners have three options: to pass the …
A massive wind farm project in Oklahoma could be critical to American Electric Power’s expectations of 5% to 7% earnings growth through 2024. The North Central Wind project, a proposed operation of three wind farms capable of producing 1,485 MW of electrical power for Public Service Company of Oklahoma is still in regulatory limbo. …
Environmentalists have gone to court to stop the Trump administration to allow 3,500 new gas wells in southwestern Wyoming, contending the wells will interrupt an historic migration route for the Pronghorn antelope. The area in question is also where antelope have historically traversed a 170-mile migration route every year for 6,000 years. Conservation groups filed …
After years of fighting New York state officials as well as environmentalists, Tulsa-based Williams Cos. Inc is giving up on its proposed Constitution Pipeline. And it’s left environmentalists elated. The pipeline was an effort to transport natural gas from Pennsylvania’s shale fields to New York. “Williams — with support from its partners, Duke Energy …
New leadership is coming to Tulsa’s Unit Corporation as Larry D. Pinkston has retired as Chief Executive Officer and President. He will be replaced by David T. Merrill effective April 1, 2020. Pinkston, who joined the company in 1981 and became Chief Financial Officer in 1989, will remain on Unit’s Board of Directors. His retirement …
Denver-based Cimarex Energy Co., a firm with exploration operations in western Oklahoma is linking executive pay to the reduction of natural gas flaring and of air emissions. The board of directors of Cimarex Energy also set 2020 targets for such reductions saying the industry needs more environmental credibility. The targets include an increase in …
Canadian and Kingfisher Counties in Oklahoma’s STACK will see increased drilling activity as the Oklahoma Corporation Commission has approved more oil and gas drilling permits. Chaparral Energy received two permits to drill a mile south of El Reno along highway US 81. The company received two more drilling permits for a single site three …
Completion reports filed on February 21, 2020. BLAINE COUNTY Acacia Exploration Partners Llc Mississippian(9780): Oil 254 Gas 2565 Water 1512 Flow 30 17N 11W Truett Hurst 1-19h, September 17, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 15128 ft Lat: 35.92504, Long: -98.41950 API: 35011242270000 Devon Energy Production Co Lp Mississippian(9354): Oil 873 Gas 2128 Water 1202 Flow 13 16N 10W Scott 13_24-16n-10w 2hx, February 01, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: …
