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Utility’s energy efficiency plan met with skepticism in Kansas
A Kansas utility’s plan to invest $96 million in energy efficiency programs is being met with skepticism by some environmental groups. The Kansas Reflector reports Evergy, a utility that serves 1.6 million customers in Kansas and Missouri wants to create the efficiency programs in order to lower carbon emissions and customers’ bills. Click here for …
Rates determined for Tulsa’s new toll road
The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority took action this week setting the toll rates for Tulsa’s Gilcrease Expressway. The Expressway is expected to open to traffic in September reported the Tulsa World. Click here for Tulsa World
Dewey County is site of large oil producer for Blake Production
You don’t normally see much about Blake Production Company, a firm based in Oklahoma City. But this week, Blake filed a completion report on a Dewey County well with nearly 1,200 barrels of oil a day in production. The Cypress 1816 1-35h, located about 5 miles southeast of Taloga (35 18N 16W) was completed in …
Fight advances against proposed turnpike in Norman
The fight by hundreds of Norman residents against the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority over a proposed new turnpike that would run through homes and business parts of the city took another step this week. The residents filed suit and accused the Authority of violating the state’s Open Meeting Act and this week their attorney Stan …
Banks that “boycotted” fossil fuels banned by Texas
Ten financial firms that did not support the oil and gas industry learned Wednesday they had just been banned from doing business with the state of Texas. State Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced the decision to ban BlackRock Inc and other banks and investment firms from entering into most contracts with the state reported The …
Other energy headlines
** The state of Utah and two Republican-leaning rural counties sued the Biden administration on Wednesday over the president’s decision last year to restore two sprawling national monuments on rugged lands sacred to Native Americans that former President Donald Trump had downsized. ** Climate activists have developed plans to foil a provision Senator Joe Manchin wedged into the new …
Laredo Petroleum executive leaves company
Laredo Petroleum just lost its Chief Operating Officer and the company indicated it won’t replace T. Karen Chandler. She was the company’s Senior Vice President and COO and left the company immediately, according to an SEC filing made by Laredo. The company stated that “Dr. Chandler’s departure was not the result of any disagreement …
Fight looms over protecting lesser prairie chicken in the Permian Basin
The debate is growing in New Mexico whether federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, including Oklahoma, will harm the oil and gas industry. U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell of New Mexico is fighting the federal proposal to list the bird as “endangered” reported the Carlsbad Current-Argus. Click here for Carlsbad Current-Argus
Permits to drill for August 24, 2022
Kingfisher County REDTAIL 13-15N-8W #3H, August 23 2022 13 15N 8W SESWSWSE API: 07326914 Lat: 35.7696174382535, Long: -98.00202862595481 DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION CO LP HH, AM, 13663 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN (LESS CHESTER)(8700), WOODFORD(9250) Kingfisher County FOWLER TRUST 30-15-5 #2H, August 24 2022 30 15N 5W SESESWSW API: 07326916 Lat: 35.740932963438894, Long: -97.77718969221695 BCE-MACH III LLC HH, DR, 12457 ft, …
Completion reports for August 24, 2022
CANADIAN COUNTY Camino Natural Resources Llc Mississippian(9655): Oil 278 Gas 741 Water 2289 Flow 25 12N 7W Black Kettle 1207 25-36-3mxh, May 18, 2022 HH, OIL, TD: 17412 ft Lat: 35.48722, Long: -97.88739 API: 35017257380000 Citizen Energy Iii Llc Mississippian(9309): Oil 621 Gas 2489 Water 1232 Flow 34 11N 6W Skywalker 34-27-11-6 2mxh, December 11, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 20033 ft Lat: 35.37802, Long: -97.82498 API: 35017253740000 …