Oklahoma energy companies who are active in drilling in Wyoming might soon encounter more difficulties in obtaining permits to drill in the state. A new rule has taken effect as Wyoming wants to trim drilling activity and do it by reducing the record number of applications for permits to drill the oil and gas wells. …
While President Trump has been critical of wind and solar projects, his administration is set to approve what would be the largest solar farm in the U.S. It will be a 690 MW operation with 380 MW of 4-hour battery storage. NV Energy’s Gemini solar-plus-storage project will cost around $38.44 per megawatt-hour under a 25-year contract …
Scattered throughout Oklahoma’s energy fields of oil wells, wind and solar farms and transmission lines are dozens and dozens of Indian tribal casinos. And they are the source of the fight between the tribes and Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt—a fight that now has gone to federal court. Hours before the start of 2020, the Cherokee, …
Tulsa’s Williams has filed a settlement agreement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission over a pending rate case of its Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC. Under the Stipulation and Agreement with FERC, Williams agreed to a rate moratorium good through August of 2021. In filing the settlement, Williams indicated it expects FERC approval …
The feds are now getting involved in the hunt to see who’s behind the mysterious and unidentified drones flying in formation over rural parts of northeastern Colorado and southwest Nebraska. The Federal Aviation Administration stated it has started an investigation into the nightime sightings of the drones in the past two weeks. The unmanned aircraft …
Kansas defense contractor, LaForge and Budd Construction Company, Inc. agreed this week to pay $3 million to settle civil claims over allegations of submitting false claims to the Army at Fort Sill. U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing in Oklahoma City made the announcement, explaining the company had entered into a 2010 contract to do work …
Tulsa’s Williams announced it has puts its natural gas line serving New Jersey tri-state area consumers nearly 11 months ahead of schedule. The company said it’s Gateway Expansion Project is finished and in time for the 2019-20 winter heating season. The Gateway Expansion Project is an expansion of the existing Transco pipeline system, providing 65,000 …
The fight to determine who provides electrical power to the Tall Oak Woodford Cryo Plant in southeastern Oklahoma goes before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission on Thursday. People’s Electric Cooperative, Inc., based in Ada has been attempting to stop Oklahoma Gas and Electric from serving the plant. The cooperative, in a filing in early 2019 claimed …
Houston’s Newfield Exploration Mid-Con Inc. is planning four more sister wells in an area of the STACK that had big producers for the company. Located at 29 16N 8W, the four Dan Fiu wells will be located at a site about 8 miles west of Kingfisher. The permits were issued in early December and …
Oklahoma City’s Continental Resources Inc. is finishing 2019 with four sister wells producing more than 2,300 barrels of oil a day in the SCOOP. But a fifth well’s production from a site in an adjacent section makes combined production more than 2,500 barrels of oil a day from all five wells. And the company had …