The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported this week that as a result of several U.S. refinery closures in 2020, the nation’s refinery capacity dropped 4.5%. In an announcement, the EIA stated the primary measure of refinery capacity fell to a total of 18.1 million barrels a day at the start of 2021. The end-of-year …
Kansas City building code update delayed again
Kansas City officials delay further action on regulations to strengthen energy efficiency in the city’s building codes, potentially leading to less stringent rules. It likely means the code won’t be adopted until sometime next year reported the Energy News Network. Click here for Energy News Network.
Oak Ridge lab sends more nuclear waste to New Mexico
The Oak Ridge, Tennessee National Laboratory recently sent its 100th shipment of nuclear waste to a New Mexico storage site since resuming shipments four years ago. The Carlsbad Current Argus reported the U.S. Department of Energy revealed the waste had been sent to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. Click here for …
Energy news in brief
** Liberty Oilfield Services Inc. has successfully completed the rigorous field testing of Liberty’s digiFrac electric pump, the company announced Wednesday. DigiFrac is the industry’s first purpose-built fully integrated electric frac pump with high power density and significantly lower emissions relative to the best next generation frac technology available in the market. ** Federal data show wind …
Firm illegally stores hundreds of old wind turbine blades in Iowa
Iowa’s environmental regulators are asking their state attorney general to investigate an out-of-state wind turbine manufacturer for illegally storing hundreds of wind turbine blades in three Iowa towns. The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported the firm, Global Fiberglass Solutions Inc. stored 1,300 turbines in the towns and missed deadlines to either bury them in landfills …
Cushing’s crude oil supplies reverse and increase
Days after reports indicated there was a drop in supplies of crude oil at the Cushing hub, the American Petroleum Institute said Wednesday they had increased. The API reported U.S. inventories of crude oil fell 7.98 million barrels over the past week but supplies at Cushing were up 152,000 barrels. Gasoline inventories were …
Renewed enforcement power helps New Mexico oil agency
Ever since it regained enforcement power in 2020, New Mexico’s Oil Conservation Division has been in a race to issue citations and plug abandoned oil and gas wells in the state. According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, the agency also handed out its first fines in more than a decade. Click here for …
Devon won’t target all of its energy emissions
Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy might be okay with emissions reductions on what are called Scopes 1 and 2 operations by 2030, but a company executive says it won’t extend the efforts to assets it does not own in its chain of energy facilities. Devon’s chief operating officer Clay Gaspar told Argus it intends to phase …
Oil prices slip again over OPEC+ indecision
Oil prices took another hit on Wednesday and fell more than $1 a barrel as investors continued being nervous over the breakdown of discussions between major oil producers Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. Oklahoma energy stocks largely followed suit. The collapse in OPEC+ talks might mean crude supplies could build again at the …
County leaders at McAlester support planned wind farm
A possible wind farm in southeast Oklahoma near McAlester won the support this week of Pittsburg County Commissioners. The McAlester News-Capital reported commissioners voted in support of the wind farm proposed by Red Earth Energy, Inc. Click here for McAlester News-Capital.
