The nation’s number of active oil and gas rigs took another drop in the past week, according to Baker Hughes Co. while Oklahoma added one to reach 40 active rigs. The nation’s count fell by 6 to 669 including a decline of 7 oil rigs, leaving 530 while the number of gas rigs fell …
Devon Energy reports big natural gas production from Blaine County wells
Turns out Devon Energy had four wells on a single pad in Blaine County with production of more than 1,500 barrels of oil a day and nearly 29,000 Mcf of natural gas. The Oklahoma City company filed two more completion reports a day after it filed two others showing production of 679 barrels of …
Kansas groups sue Fish and Wildlife Service to stop protection of lesser prairie-chicken
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service was sued this week by some Kansas farm groups in a challenge of the agency’s move to enact Endangered Species Act protective regulations for the lesser prairie-chicken. The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the suit on behalf of Cameron Edwards who is a Logan County landowner, a group of Kansas …
Energy headlines
** A U.S. appeals court declined to reconsider lawsuits challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that greenhouse gasses, including carbon dioxide, pose a danger to human health and welfare. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a petition for rehearing en banc filed by the Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council and …
Rep. Tom Cole says House passed bill will boost FAA in Oklahoma City
A bill passed in the U.S. to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration and federal aviation programs for the next five years will help improve not only Oklahoma City’s air traffic controllers training program but other control towers in the state. Congressman Tom Cole supported the passage of H.R. 3935, the Securing Growth and Robust …
Barrasso says latest BLM leasing rules are just another attack on oil and gas
Wyoming U.S.. Sen. John Barrasso says the latest rule proposed by the Biden administration to raise costs of oil and gas firms leasing public lands is just another assualt that knows no bounds on America’s reliable energy industry. “President Biden’s assault on affordable, available and reliable American energy knows no bounds. With the stroke of …
Texas firm opens still another natural gas processing operation in Midland Basin
Enterprise Product Partners L.P. announced that its Poseidon cryogenic natural gas processing facility in Glasscock County, TX, has begun operations. The new facility, which is the company’s sixth plant in the Midland Basin, can extract more than 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) of natural gas liquids (NGLs). It has a nameplate capacity of 300 …
New Mexico might ban ‘forever’ chemicals in fracking process
New Mexico energy regulators are considering a total ban of “forever chemicals” in oil and gas production. They might adopt new rules to regulate the substances and plan to hold a hearing next year to consider a ban of PFAS chemicals. Their consideration follows a study by Physicians for Social Responsibility that found the …
Government to take bids in August on Gulf of Mexico wind farm leases
The federal government announced the first-ever chance for companies to lease areas in the Gulf of Mexico to build wind farms, including two parcels roughly 30 miles off the Texas coast near Galveston. Renewable energy developers will likely compete for the leases with firms that are better known for another kind of offshore construction: …
Devon Energy helps with improvements at OKC urban farm
Devon Energy donated to RestoreOKC to expand the organization’s five-acre farm infrastructure and increase capacity for programming. RestoreOKC works to bring reconciliation to communities marked by deep injustice, oppression and division — through urban farming. The farm employs over 20 local high school students and teaches them STEM, hydroponics, agriscience and leadership skills. Devon’s …