June 12, 2023 archive

Completion reports for June 12, 2023

CANADIAN COUNTY Marathon Oil Company Mississippi Solid(10096): Oil 405 Gas 2708 Water 1293 Flow 12 14N 9W Janice 1409 2-13-24mxh, March 13, 2023 HH, OIL, TD: 20777 ft Lat: 35.69711, Long: -98.10195 API: 35017258140000 Marathon Oil Company Mississippi Solid(9960): Oil 490 Gas 4004 Water 1296 Flow 12 14N 9W Janice 1409 3-13-24mxh, March 13, 2023 HH, OIL, TD: 20750 ft Lat: 35.69711, Long: -98.10187 API: 35017258130000 KAY …

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Permits to drill for June 12, 2023

Canadian County WILLIAMS #3H-3106X, March 15 2023 31 11N 7W NENENWNE API: 01725931 Lat: 35.3909444185295, Long: -97.97741023209853 CIMAREX ENERGY CO MU, AM, 20800 ft, WOODFORD(11370) Canadian County WILLIAMS #2H-3106X, March 13 2023 30 11N 7W SWSWSESW API: 01725930 Lat: 35.392328953425306, Long: -97.98492950280284 CIMAREX ENERGY CO MU, AM, 21170 ft, WOODFORD(11370) Grady County SIMMS #3-29-32-5XHS, June 12 2023 …

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Another weak day in trading for oil prices and Oklahoma energy stocks

Crude oil prices and Oklahoma energy stocks took dives in Monday’s trading—crude oil by 4% and some energy stocks by 6%. The drop in crude came after analysts pointed to increasing global supplies and concerns about demand growth. Their worries were expressed as the U.S. Federal Reserve meets later in the week. West Texas Intermediate …

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Oklahoma regulators to get update on open records requests

  Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners meet Tuesday afternoon and will get a briefing on public information requests made of the agency. Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony made the request for the agenda item which pertains to Open Records requests that might be pending with the Commission. He asked for a report on the number of requests for …

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Cleanup recovers 1,125 barrels of oil from contaminated Garfield County creek

  Nearly 2,000 barrels of oil and oil water have been recovered to date since the early June oil spill into a creek near the northern Oklahoma town of Kremlin. An update from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission showed 1,125 barrels of oil were recovered during the cleanup operation along the 9-Mile Creek. Another 802 barrels …

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Oklahoma launches study of alternative highway funding

  A statewide transportation research project mandated by the Oklahoma legislature is getting underway with a pilot project and it needs some help from Oklahomans across the state. It is called Fair Miles Oklahoma, an Oklahoma Department of Transportation research program aimed at identifying alternative approaches to funding the state’s transportation needs. The pay-per-mile pilot …

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Reports show more BCE-Mach III activity in northwest Oklahoma

  A series of three wells drilled in Kingfisher County by BCE-Mach III LLC was reported to Oklahoma regulators. They were among four BCE-Mach wells to be drilled in the past 12 months in northwest Oklahoma. Completion reports were filed, indicating one of the Kingfisher County wells was completed in January of 2023 while the …

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Texas Railroad Commissioners fight Biden’s fossil fuel war

  The Texas Railroad Commission has decided to stand up and fight the Biden’s Department of Transportation over its Railway Safety Act of 2023, a measure that could give the DOT the power to limit the transportation of fossil fuel-based energy products on freight cars. Railroad Commission chairman Christi Craddick, along with Commissioners Wayne Christian …

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Nation’s biggest private oil and gas producers list is headed by Continental Resources and Ascent Resources

    A new report states that two Oklahoma City-based energy companies, Continental Resources and Ascent Resources, are some of the most prolific private oil and gas producers in the U.S. The listing by Enverus Intelligence Research, a subsidiary of Enverus, was based on gross operated production last year. Continental and Ascent were followed by …

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Tribes buy idle oil pipeline in North Dakota

    While the picture has been painted over the past few years that Native American tribes are totally opposed to oil and gas operations, that’s not so. And the case was made over the weekend when it was announced that a tribe in North Dakota acquired an idle pipeline to help deliver oil from …

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