Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners might decide this week whether to allow a pilot tariff project to allow Oklahoma Natural Gas Company to begin offering renewable natural gas. Commonly referred to as RNG, the gas is produced from landfills, wastewater treatment facilities and what are known as anaerobic digesters. It also costs more to produce than …
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants an update of the Arkansas Water Plan as two of the most critical aquifers in the state continue to decline. Arkansas Business reports the state plan has not been updated in nearly a decade and the governor’s order directs state agencies to identify the “most pressing current issues” …
El Reno Public School students celebrated the opening of three new science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) Centers. Devon Energy and Flogistix partnered with the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation to install the STEM Centers in Rose Witcher Elementary, Lincoln Learning Center and Leslie F. Roblyer Learning Center. Matt Goucher, superintendent of El Reno Public …
A new report by the national accounting firm of Ernst & Young revealed that the nation’s top energy companies paid out more of their earnings last year to shareholders than they invested in new oil and gas fields for the first time. At the same time, total capital expenditures decreased among the study companies, which …
A new study by the government shows energy use in Oklahoma’s commercial sectors in 2021 actually decreased compared to 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic. Oklahoma is listed among most states that saw about a 3% decline in energy use, according to the report issued this week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The report …
** The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will scrap its current assessment of federal smog standards and start over, a move environmental advocates called an unnecessary delay. ** A group of Virginia-based environmental and conservation groups sued the state Monday over Virginia’s withdrawal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a carbon-capping agreement encompassing several other East Coast …
Developers of a proposed 88-mile oil train across western Colorado vow to continue efforts to make it happen, this after a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled the Uinta Basin Railway had not received adequate environmental review by a federal agency. The rail line was proposed to carry oil from eastern Utah and across western …
The American Petroleum Institute came out blasting the Biden administration’s decision Monday, recommending restrictions on oil and natural gas vessels operating in the Gulf of Mexico. “Today’s notice from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is yet another example of the Biden administration working to restrict American energy, which could lead to higher energy …
A new completion report filed this week shows Continental Resources Inc. drilled a southern Oklahoma well with production of nearly 1,300 barrels of oil a day. The Courbet 16-15-9xhm, drilled at 15 1S 3W or about one mile northeast of Ratliff City in Carter County, produced 1,289 barrels of oil and 1,547 Mcf of …
CADDO COUNTY Territory Resources Llc Hoxbar(4770): Oil 10.42 Water 8 Pump 25 6N 10W Dewey Alice 3-25, March 10, 2022 DH, OIL, TD: 7100 ft Lat: 34.95784, Long: -98.19990 API: 35015226170001 CARTER COUNTY Continental Resources Inc Sycamore(7919): Oil 1289 Gas 1547 Water 4805 Flow 15 1S 3W Courbet 16-15-9xhm, February 03, 2023 HH, OIL, TD: 19411 ft Lat: 34.46862, Long: -97.49528 API: 35019265140001 PAWNEE COUNTY Nogp …
