One can only imagine the slang descriptions used by students at the National Western Center and Colorado State University’s growing Denver Spur campus about the heat provided by sewage. That’s right, sewage. The Colorado Sun reported how energy is pulled from one of Denver’s main sewage lines and transferred to clean water pipes at …
December 2022 archive
Democrats boast of climate change accomplishments
House Democrats who sat on the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis released a report this week and proclaimed they delivered on their pledge to urgently address the costly climate crisis. Chair Kathy castor released Solving the Climate Crisis 2022: Key Accomplishments and Additional Opportunities, a majority staff report highlighting key accomplishments made by Congress to …
I-40 traffic flowing again after repair of major pothole
Some might have called it the Mother of All Potholes—a 20 foot pothole on I-40 near Calumet in western Oklahoma. It’s been repaired but not before several vehicles were damaged this week following heavy rains. Click here for Fox 25 News
Rep. Mullin says House energy work was special
As he prepares to leave the U.S. House and become a U.S. Senator in January, Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin says he’s especially proud of the time he served on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In a note to constituents, the Republican Representative, who won the November election to succeed retiring Sen. Jim Inhofe, …
Williams Cos expands gas pipeline holdings with $1.5 billion purchase
Tulsa-based Williams is expanding its natural gas pipeline holdings with the $1.5 billion acquisition of Southwest Gas Holdings’ MountainWest Pipelines Holding Company. The all-cash deal involves more than 2,000 miles of interstate gas lines primarily in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado operated by MountainWest. The systems total nearly 8,031 million dekatherms a day of transmission …
Other energy headlines
** Members of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis say more remains to be done as the panel wraps up its work ahead of the new Congress. ** President Biden wants Americans to know gas prices are falling fast—and he deserves the credit. The average pump price has plunged from $5 per gallon in June …
Part of Keystone pipeline restarts after leak in northern Kansas
The Keystone pipeline restarted in part following last week’s 14,000 barrel crude oil leak into a creek in northern Kansas. An investigation has yet to determine the cause of the leak but a federal report revealed the operator received a 2017 special exemption that allowed the line to operate at pressures above the standard …
Permits to drill for December 14, 2022
Caddo County HONEY CREEK 1008 #7-18-1MXH, December 14 2022 12 10N 9W SENENENE API: 01523331 Lat: 35.362261897310034, Long: -98.09664329563161 CAMINO NATURAL RESOURCES LLC MU, DR, 23533 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(12789), WOODFORD(13092) Grady County ROMANOFF #3-24-13XHW, December 14 2022 25 7N 5W NESENWNE API: 05124994 Lat: 35.056145922668115, Long: -97.67591239175141 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC MU, DR, 21108 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(10740), WOODFORD(10959) Grady County …
Completion reports for December 14, 2022
DEWEY COUNTY Mewbourne Oil Company Red Fork(9470): Oil 19 Gas 44 Water 160 Flow 11 17N 17W 3c Farms 14 Bo 1h, October 07, 2022 HH, OIL, TD: 14710 ft Lat: 35.95794, Long: -98.98137 API: 35043237560000 GARVIN COUNTY Cprp Services Llc Woodford(12550): Oil 623 Gas 3849 Water 687 Flow 33 4N 4W Prairie 0404 33-28 2wxh, October 10, 2022 HH, OIL, TD: 18538 ft Lat: 34.77664, …
Crude oil gained more than $2 a barrel
After U.S. interest rates were not raised as much as they have in the past several months, crude oil prices ended up more than $2 a barrel in Wednesday’s trading. Forecasts from OPEC and the International Energy Agency of a rebound in demand next year also aided the price gain. The Fed raised its …