March 2021 archive

Unclear if Interior nominee will be opposed by Sen. Inhofe

  New Mexico Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland won the support of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in her bid by the Biden administration to become the new Interior Secretary. It is still not known how one of Oklahoma’s two U.S. Senators will vote when it goes to the full senate. The vote was …

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Enel Green adds to its wind projects

  Enel Green Power, already the largest wind farm operator in Oklahoma has begun construction on its latest wind project not far from the Oklahoma state line in Texas. The 79-wind turbines that will make up the Azure Sky wind and storage farm will be located in Throckmorton County located southwest of Wichita Falls. It …

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Supreme Court rules against Sierra Club

  The Sierra Club’s Freedom of Information legal loss this past week by the U.S. Supreme Court also happened to be the first time that new Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the ruling. The Club had been in a legal battle to obtain documents which detailed how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2014 …

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Frozen wind turbines studied at Iowa State University

  Preventing wind turbines from freezing in frigid weather like the winter storm that hit Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas last month isn’t as easy as it sounds. It’s not a simple solution of putting electrical heaters on the blades. One Iowa State University scientist who has been studying ways to prevent the icing on wind …

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Completion reports for March 4, 2021

CANADIAN COUNTY Citizen Energy Iii Llc Mississippian: Gas 6011 Water 1304 Flow 21 12N 10W Braveheart 1h-21-28, May 15, 2019 HH, GAS, TD: 22597 ft Lat: 35.50683, Long: -98.26353 API: 35017253930000 CARTER COUNTY Kodiak Oil & Gas Inc Pontotoc(820): Oil 4 Water 35 Pump 28 3S 2W Oil City Unit 78, February 03, 2021 SH, OIL, TD: 1211 ft Lat: 34.27214, Long: -97.40533 API: 35019264010000 …

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Permits to drill for March 4, 2021

Carter County OIL CITY UNIT #61, August 11 2020 27 3S 2W NESWSENW API: 01926255 Lat: 34.26852354036283, Long: -97.39878269147188 KODIAK OIL & GAS INC SH, AM, 1150 ft, PONTOTOC(850) Custer County SWARTZENDRUBER #2-22-15XHM, March 04 2021 27 14N 14W NWNENWNW API: 03922592 Lat: 35.66672955119085, Long: -98.68289585443165 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC MU, DR, 23689 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(12940), WOODFORD(15050)

24th annual Oklahoma Oil and Gas Expo planned

  After the 2020 Oklahoma Oil & Gas Expo was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers say they plan to hold the expo October 14 at the State Fair Park Bennett Event Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hosted by Sustaining Oklahoma’s Energy Resources (SOER), a program under the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board …

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US crude bounces up close to $64

  Crude oil prices had another big jump in Thursday’s trading in apparent continued response to reports that OPEC+ might not increase its oil production from April as widely speculated. West Texas Intermediate crude for April delivery rose $2.55 finish the day at $63.83 a barrel. That’s a nearly 3-dollar-a-barrel increase since earlier in the …

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Sen. Lankford presses Energy nominee

  It took Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford four tries before he could an answer from David Turk, the President’s nominee to be the Deputy Energy Secretary in a discussion about the future of fossil fuel powered vehicles. During Turk’s confirmation hearing on Thursday before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Sen. Lankford asked …

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Cleanup continues at Oklahoma’s Tar Creek Superfund site

  Oklahoma’s Tar Creek Superfund site in the northeast part of the state remains the target of cleanup efforts. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality slated a virtual public meeting this week to discuss the residential yard and high access area cleanups at the site.s The public was informed about an upcoming remediation as part …

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