A call is being made to put a 10-mile no energy-leasing zone around the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico. The call comes from Bruce Babbitt, the former Secretary of the Interior Department. In an opinion piece in Writers on the Range, Babbitt said “a surge of oil and gas development threatens …
Ranken boasts of reduced drilling costs
Edmond-based Ranken Energy Corporation says it has managed to cut drilling costs thanks to its work with Dan D Drilling, another Oklahoma-based energy company. Through a relationship with drilling contractor Dan D Drilling, Ranken stated it has successfully cut expenditure costs, primarily via minimizing days on the well and reducing the well site footprint afforded …
Oil prices up ahead of OPEC+ meeting
Anxious to see whether OPEC ministers will keep a steady pace in raising oil supplies, investors didn’t back away from putting their money in crude oil futures on Friday. They also liked what they saw in Oklahoma energy stocks as oil finished just short of a three-year high. West Texas Intermediate crude for November delivery …
Nine Energy sets to release 3Q earnings report
Houston’s Nine Energy Service, Inc., the company with significant completion operations in Oklahoma plans to release its third quarter 2021 earnings report in early November. The company will release the report on Thursday, Nov. 4 followed by a 9 a.m. conference call where leadership will discuss the results. Nine Energy had second quarter revenues …
Increased rig numbers in Oklahoma and U-S
Figures from the latest Baker Hughes Co. rig count showed Oklahoma’s numbers increased by one in the past week to 40 oil and gas rigs in the state. The count compares to only 12 rigs one year ago. Nationally, the count increased by 7 over the last several days to reach a total of …
Ardmore remembers deadly 1915 rail tanker blast
The city of Ardmore is recalling the deadly and disastrous rail tanker explosion 106 years ago that left more than 50 people dead and the city’s downtown in ruins. As The Daily Ardmoreite recalled this week, a railroad car filled with 250 barrels of gasoline blew up Sept. 27, 1915 right in the downtown …
Oil royalty scheme leads to guilty pleas by 3 OKC men
Guilty pleas have been made by three Oklahoma City men charged with federal conspiracy charges involving oil and gas royalties. The charges involved millions of dollars according to a report by The Oklahoman. Click here for The Oklahoman.
Series of DUCS filed by Continental Resources
Continental Resources wrapped up some paperwork with the filing of 9 completion reports on wells in Carter and Grady Counties. Some were apparently a list of DUCS, drilled but uncompleted wells. Most of the Carter County wells were drilled in different areas east of Ratliff City and all within sight of one another. Two …
GOP Senators—eco-terrorist collaborator confirmed as BLM Director
As much as Oklahoma U.S. Sen James Lankford opposed the nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to be the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, he couldn’t stop her confirmation from being approved Thursday in the full Senate. The environmentalist activist who was accused of being a radical who helped violate federal laws decades ago …
Flexible turbine blades could extend wind power’s reach
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado say they’re working on ways to making wind turbine blades more bendable so the challenges of transporting them on highways and roads isn’t so difficult. The researchers found that “controlled flexing” might also result in the ability to manufacture longer blades reported the Energy News …
