First its Keystone XL pipeline project was killed by President Biden on the first day he took office and now developer TC Energy Corp. is in the middle of a fight over another pipeline project. Three states are attempting to block the Canadian company’s pipeline aimed at carrying Canadian natural gas to customers in …
EPA switches stance on Trump-era approved offshore project
Developers of a proposed offshore oil export terminal project near Corpus Christi, Texas were handed a setback by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA denied a permit for the project claiming it would allow massive pollution. The denial came after the same agency, in the Trump administration had okayed the project reported the Corpus …
Newfield loses North Dakota Supreme Court case
The Supreme Court in North Dakota overturned a lower court ruling that was in favor of Newfield Exploration, a Texas firm that had been accused of underpaying royalties. It’s a decision that could eventually mean millions more to the state’s public schools reported the Associated Press. Click here for AP
Oklahoma’s rig count is steady while national numbers decline
Oklahoma’s rig count held steady for another week as the latest Baker Hughes report showed the state maintaining a count of 65 working oil and gas rigs. Baker Hughes reported the national count fell by 5 to 760. The decline included a loss of 9 oil rigs to 596 while the number of gas …
States in EPA noncompliance for regional haze pollution plans
New Mexico, Iowa, Louisiana and Missouri are among 15 states that received noncompliance notices from the EPA for failing to submit plans to reduce regional haze pollution as required by the Clean Air Act. The EPA gave the states two years to submit a plan that is within EPA guidelines or else the federal …
OKC’s Flywheel Energy makes major expansion in Arkansas shale play
Oklahoma City’s Flywheel Energy just expanded its holdings by 5,000 wells in the Fayetteville Shale play of Arkansas in a purchase from Exxon Mobil Corp. The purchase price was not disclosed by either company but when Exxon acquired the 381,000 acres in 2010, it was in a $650 million deal. Flywheel’s acquisition includes 850 …
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** President Joe Biden on Friday brought back John Podesta, a behind-the-scenes veteran at getting things done on climate in past Democratic administrations, to put into place an ambitious U.S. climate program newly revived by $375 billion from Congress. ** Centennial Resource Development Inc. and Colgate Energy Partners II LLC completed their merger on Sept. 1, marking …
Next New Mexico legislative session likely to bring more rules targeting oil and gas
New Mexico’s oil and gas industry will likely be targeted by the state’s legislature when it meets again in January. In the just-concluded legislative session, oil and gas regulators sought more funding to enact new rules and regulations that targeted air pollution from fossil fuel operations. The Carlsbad Current-Argus reported more such bills and …
Xcel’s Colorado customers couldn’t lower their thermostats
Xcel customers in Colorado learned the hard way this week about who really controls their home thermostats. Some 22,000 customers who joined the company’s AC Rewards program were locked out from controlling their own air conditioners on Tuesday. Excel remotely set their thermostats at 80 degrees according to Blaze Media. Click here for Blaze …
Crude fell again and so did Oklahoma energy stocks
China’s latest COVID-19 lockdown measures made investors nervous on Thursday as they sent crude oil prices tumbling more than 3%. Not to mention, there are concerns about high inflation across the U.S. and the rest of the world and then there is the nagging issue of interest rate hikes and what they are doing …
