Oklahoma City-based Hinkle Oil & Gas Inc. filed completion reports on seven wells in Kingfisher County including one with production of more than a thousand barrels of oil a day. While four of the wells were drilled on two separate pads, the others were adjacent to one another in an area about …
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Kansas congressman fights Interior Department over prairie chicken
Kansas congressman Ron Estes wants to make sure the U.S. Interior Department won’t be able to put restraints on land use by claiming the lesser prairie chicken is threatened or endangered. He introduced legislation to prohibit such a move after federal wildlife officials in November registered the bird as threatened in Kansas and endangered …
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** Two oilfield workers were killed this past week while working at a rig site near San Augustine, Texas. A loose hydraulic line exploded when workers attempted to restart. ** Ford sent out an email to retirement-eligible salaried employees in September with a warning and a bit of advice about retiring this year to maximize a lump sum …
New style of solar farm to be built in Texas
Texas will be the site of the next solar project of Erthos, Inc., the company that designed solar operations that sit directly on the ground rather than on legs. Erthos signed an agreement with Austin-based Industrial Sun LCC for a new solar farm to be built in Texas but the site was not revealed …
New Mexico Senator wants more money for plugging of abandoned wells
New Mexico U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Lujan wants still more federal funding of the plugging of abandoned oil and gas wells that dot his state as well as Oklahoma and others. He has filed a bill to amend the President’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to earmark hundreds of millions of dollars more for …
Keystone pipeline leak in Kansas could affect Oklahoma’s Cushing hub
The Keystone Pipeline oil leak into a Kansas creek on Wednesday was estimated at 14,000 barrels of crude oil and could impact the amount of crude in storage at the Cushing hub in Oklahoma. The leak occurred in Mill Creek near the north Kansas town of Washington reported the Kansas City Star. Now there …
Another tumble for Oklahoma energy stocks and crude oil prices
Crude oil prices initially made gains Thursday as investors were optimistic that China’s removal of some anti-COVID restrictions might restore global supply chains. Then, they fell. So did Oklahoma energy stocks. West Texas Intermediate crude for delivery in January dropped 55 cents a barrel or about 1% to close at $71.46 on the New …
Building manufacturing firm to close in Shawnee
Seventy-five workers at the Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope company in Shawnee will lose their jobs in early 2023 as the operation will be shut down in February. The Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development received this week the required Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification or WARN Act. David Terry, Regional Vice President/General Manager South Central for Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope stated that the move is …
Former Texas coal plant to be converted to $4 billion hydrogen factory
Two firms announced this week plans to build a $4 billion green hydrogen factory at a retired coal plant site west of Wichita Falls in North Texas. AES Corp. partnered with Air Products and Chemicals Inc., the largest producer of hydrogen. The two firms stated, in their press release, that operations are expected to …
Williams launches first natural gas certification process
The agreements announced Thursday by Williams, Coterra Energy and Dominion Energy Virginia represented a “first” in the natural gas industry. The three firms created the industry’s first next generation natural gas certification process across all segments of the value chain from production through gathering and transmission with deliveries through 2023. Williams is leveraging block-chain secured …