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Oil and gas companies drilling in the Permian Basin have been hit with higher costs in the wake of regulatory action taken by the Texas Railroad Commission following a recent large earthquake. When regulators shut down some wastewater wells, similar to the action taken a few years ago by …
Read More »Icahn busy buying up Southwest Gas after bitter fight
This week’s $1.5 billion Williams Cos. acquisition of MountainWest Pipelines Holding Co. revealed how activist investor Carl Icahn can play the game. Last year, he was embroiled in a bitter fight with Southwest Gas Holdings, the firm that sold its pipeline operations to Williams. Southwest didn’t reach a deal …
Read More »Is Texas power grid ready to handle Siberian blast of frigid weather?
Less than two years after Texas was hit with brutally cold weather that left much of the state without power, grid operators are wondering what the coming week’s wintry blast will do. Temperatures in central Oklahoma are expected to fall to day-time highs in the teens and in Texas, …
Read More »Keystone pipeline leak cleanup presents major challenge
The recent leak of 14,000 barrels of crude oil from the Keystone pipeline in northern Kansas wasn’t your ordinary oil pipeline leak—if there can be such a thing. This spill involved tar sands oil from Canada and because of that, the cleanup will be more than difficult than spills …
Read More »Permits to drill for December 15, 2022
Dewey County RUBY #13-1H, December 15 2022 13 18N 15W SESESESE API: 04323770 Lat: 36.02954098860193, Long: -98.74361885733661 COMANCHE EXPLORATION CO LLC HH, DR, 14894 ft, MISSISSIPPI LIME(10769) Grady County SASQUATCH LIVES 20_17-10N-7W #1MHX, December 15 2022 20 10N 7W SESESESW API: 05124995 Lat: 35.320397488129316, Long: -97.96322071459046 TRAVIS PEAK RESOURCES LLC HH, DR, …
Read More »Completion reports for December 15, 2022
BLAINE COUNTY Continental Resources Inc 1 14N 13W West Blaine 1-1 Swd, January 05, 2022 null, COMM, TD: 8320 ft Lat: 35.71729, Long: -98.54226 API: 35011237800002 Continental Resources Inc 1 14N 13W West Blaine 1-1 Swd, January 05, 2022 null, DISP, TD: 8320 ft Lat: 35.71729, Long: -98.54226 API: 35011237800002 Continental Resources Inc 1 …
Read More »Crude oil prices dropped after 3 straight days of gains
Some Oklahoma energy stocks recorded a more than 9% gain in Thursday’s trading as crude oil prices fell about 2% because of the fuel demand outlook and more interest rate hikes by global central banks. Crude prices dropped after three straight days of gains. West Texas Intermediate crude for …
Read More »Do something to save the Ogallala Aquifer—Kansas Water Authority
The Kansas Water Authority decided this week it’s time for the state to stop draining the Ogallala Aquifer and save it fore future generations. Meeting in the northwest Kansas city of Colby, members unanimously approved a move urging the state government to take steps to stop the decline of the aquifer, …
Read More »Energy department hands out more geothermal energy funding
While the University of Oklahoma moves rapidly ahead with a geothermal project to help heat Tuttle schools, the Energy Department announced this week $15 million in funding two similar projects, one in Colorado and another in California. A $9 million grant went to a project entitled “Geothermal Limitless Approach …
Read More »Colorado campus heated by sewage?
One can only imagine the slang descriptions used by students at the National Western Center and Colorado State University’s growing Denver Spur campus about the heat provided by sewage. That’s right, sewage. The Colorado Sun reported how energy is pulled from one of Denver’s main sewage lines and transferred …
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