One of two bills directly affecting Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners made it through the legislature and was signed into law while the other died quietly in a committee. One bill will exclude the public and close the door on certain discussions. What passed? A measure called the Corporation Commission Efficiency Act. The measure that will …
Texas is among world’s top oil producers
If Texas were a separate country, it would be the third largest oil producer in the world. It was the focus of an interesting part of the daily column produced by economist Steve Moore and his Committee to Unleash Prosperity. Moore recently wrote that the claim was verified by the latest annual oil prodution figures …
Representatives file bill to block Biden administration’s anti-oil and gas regs
Two U.S. Representatives from Colorado and Wyoming have taken on a fight against the Biden administration’s efforts to curtail oil and gas production on federal lands in their states. Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Harriet Hageman of Wyoming announced the introduction of a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to …
OGE and OKC Zoo reading program resumes to help Monarch butterfly population
Oklahoma Gas and Electric is cooperating again with the Oklahoma City Zoo and the group Read for Adventure in the 8th year of a reading encouragement and library program. Beginning this week, the program that encourages students to read while at the same time helping to create monarch butterfly gardens, got underway at more …
Continental Resources loses salt water well case in North Dakota
Oklahoma City’s Continental Resources company recently lost an appeals court case in North Dakota after being sued over a horizontal wastewater disposal well. As Justia US Law reported, the case involves Continental Resources, Inc., an Oklahoma oil and gas company, and Rick and Rosella Fisher, who own a farm in North Dakota. Continental …
Arkansas finally filed suit over 2013 Pegasus oil pipeline leak
It took eleven years for the state of Arkansas along with the federal government to take legal action, but on Friday, they sued ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. for the 2013 Pegasus oil pipeline leak that flooded the city of Mayflower with crude oil. And already a settlement is in the works and paperwork could …
Researchers look to use solar farm sites also for farm production
(Frank Morris–Harvest Public Media) It’s called agrivoltaics—the coexistance of solar farming with production agriculture. As solar farming spreads radidly, it’s consuming valuable farm land in some instances. But in more and more cases, livestock are being allowed to graze and roam under higher placed solar panels. A site north of Lawrence, Kansas is one example …
Energy briefs
** Elon Musk’s Tesla is not the only electric vehicle company laying off workers en masse; one of its rivals, Lucid, announced last week that it’s laying off about 400 people, SFGate reports, more than a year after another round of layoffs that saw 1,300 people get the boot. ** An Iowa Republican congressional candidate says the government …
ROFR and PBR opposed by Corporation Commission’s Public Utilities Division
For the record, Oklahoma’s ROFR or Right of First Refusal Bill, died in the just-concluded legislative session. At the same time, Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners were urged by their Public Utilities Division not to adopt ROFR or another controversial rate-making proposal called PBR or Performance Based Ratemaking. Commissioners were recently given a 37-page recommendation …
Latest US rig count is unchanged while numbers declined in Oklahoma
The latest rig report from Baker Hughes showed no change in the nation’s oil and gas rig count but a decline in Oklahoma. The report released on Friday indicated the nationwide count remained at 600 rigs after a decline of one oil rig leaving 496 in the patch and a gain of one gas …