Oklahoma congressman Markwayne Mullin is reminding President Biden to put America first when it comes to its energy industry. He and 145 Republican Representatives wrote the President this week urging him to reverse his anti-American agenda and put the best interest of our country and economy first. Oklahoma Reps. Tom Cole, Kevin Hern and …
October 2021 archive
Oklahoma prepares to tax commercial EV charging stations
Oklahoma regulators are preparing emergency rulemaking to begin creation of tax revenue collection on commercial electric vehicle charging stations across the state. The Corporation Commission announced in recent days plans to hold a technical conference on October 20 with an October 22 deadline to receive comments about the rules that will apply to the …
Rig numbers grow in Oklahoma and across the US
Oklahoma’s rig activity grew even more in the past week according to the latest service report from Baker Hughes which showed the state’s rig count increased by two to 43. A year ago, there were only 14 drilling rigs active in the state. The latest Baker Hughes rig count showed a nationwide increase of …
Other brief energy stories
** The United Steelworkers union urged locked-out workers at Exxon Mobil Corp’s Beaumont, Texas, refinery to reject a company contract offer in a vote scheduled for Tuesday, according to a union statement. ** A total of 114 workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory — the birthplace of the atomic bomb — are suing over the government’s vaccine …
Completion reports for October 15, 2021
completions: none were processed today
Permits to drill for October 15, 2021
Canadian County TOBY KEITH 1108 #7-18-1MXH, October 15 2021 06 11N 8W SESWSWSW API: 01725718 Lat: 35.45021057971437, Long: -98.0945853461017 CAMINO NATURAL RESOURCES LLC MU, DR, 22765 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(12093), WOODFORD(12294) Garfield County LAURA CREWS NORTH #35, October 15 2021 19 22N 3W N2NWSWSW API: 04724371 Lat: 36.36468615358539, Long: -97.56740064393698 M M ENERGY INC SH, RC, 4440 ft, CREWS(1950), …
Spire’s legal pipeline fight isn’t finished
St. Louis gas utility Spire Inc. faces a possible stoppage of its pipeline through Illinois and Missouri after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected the company’s stay request to continue operating. At issue is a lower court ruling against Spire’s 65-mile $285 million STL Pipeline which opened in November 2019. The court ruled …
3Q financial report coming from Cactus
Another Texas energy company with operations in Oklahoma, Cactus, Inc. plans to release its third quarter 2021 earnings report in a few weeks. The House-based company announced it will make the information available to the public after the close of markets on Wednesday, November 3. The release will be followed by a conference call …
Historic changes are coming to the Texas energy industry
A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Texas suggests the state’s economy will continue to do well in the coming decades even with a possible and likely long-term decline in the state’s oil and gas sector. But changes are definitely coming to the state’s energy industry. The bank stated in its assessment report …
Coal fired power plants will still be around in 2050
If the prediction of the U.S. Energy Information Administration is accurate, most of the electricity generated in this country through the next 30 years or so will come from renewable resources–especially solar and wind power. But don’t think coal will be gone by then. The EIA expects certain regions of the country will still …