January 26, 2023 archive

Apex Clean Energy awards $1.2 Million to conservation efforts in Kansas, Iowa, and Texas

  Apex Clean Energy, a company with wind farm operations in Oklahoma, announced the recipients of its 2022 Conservation Grant Program, totaling $1.2 million in funding for conservation projects near the company’s commercialized renewable energy sites. The program, which represents the first of its kind within the clean energy industry, contributed $1.7 million in its …

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Senator wants Oklahoma to create its own Strategic Petroleum Reserve

  If a bill becomes law as proposed by Sen. Nathan Dahm of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma could become the first state in the nation to develop its own Strategic Petroleum Reserve, one copied after the national Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The Senator introduced SB205 which calls for the creation of a petroleum reserve that will hold …

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Energy Department’s stonewalling Rep. Lucas over a controversial grant

  The Department of Energy doesn’t want to answer questions from Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas about a $200 million grant awarded to a company with direct ties to communist Chinese leadership. So Rep. Lucas, in his capacity as chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee has fired off a follow-up letter to the …

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Crude oil in storage increases in Cushing hub and across the U.S.

  Crude oil supplies again rose at the Cushing hub in Oklahoma in the past week, following what the U.S. total storage supply did. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Cushing’s stored crude oil increased 4.3 million barrels, reaching a new total of 35.7 million barrels as of January 20. A week earlier on January …

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Marathon Oil hits big producer in south central Oklahoma

  A Marathon Oil Company well located 5 miles south of the city of Lindsay in Garvin County produced more than 1,700 barrels of oil a day when completed last spring. Marathon filed the completion report this week on the Hard Knox 0304 1-3-34sxh located at 9 3N 4W. Production totaled 1,728 barrels of oil …

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Sen. Mullin outlines how energy restoration is important to him

  Oklahoma’s newest U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin made it clear this week he intends to make energy one of his key efforts, carrying it over from his days as a U.S. House Representative. In a message to Oklahomans, the Republican Senator wrote, “Restoring American energy independence is one of my top priorities in the United …

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Energy headlines elsewhere

** The U.S. Forest Service has finalized a rule restoring protections rolled back under the Trump administration for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the largest such forest in the U.S. ** Data from the Bureau of Land Management shows that President Biden approved more oil and gas drilling permits in his first two years …

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