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Kansas has a new anti-ESG law, joining Oklahoma in the movement to stop financial groups that use environmental, social and governance issues, from discriminating against oil and gas firms. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, decided this week to allow the bill to become law effective July 1, without …
Read More »Trucking firms struggle with “freight recession”
When Arkansas-based J.B. Hunt trucking company recently announced a drop in first-quarter earnings blaming a “freight recession,” it spurred the Wall Street Journal to examine the issue. What it found was that falling diesel prices are among signals that indeed, a “freight recession” is underway across the nation. Even …
Read More »Completion reports for April 24, 2023
CANADIAN COUNTY Citizen Energy Iii Llc Mississippian (less Chester)(7853): Oil 240 Gas 1034 Water 1175 Gas Lift 31 14N 5W Riviera 1405 6-31mh, November 05, 2022 HH, OIL, TD: 14196 ft Lat: 35.65007, Long: -97.77555 API: 35017257990000 DEWEY COUNTY Crawley Petroleum Corporation Miss’an Lm(10188): Oil 456 Gas 2078 Water 950 Flow 1 18N 15W Christensen 1-1mh, March 29, 2023 HH, OIL, …
Read More »Permits to drill for April 24, 2023
Canadian County BROKEN BOW LAKE 1208 #21-16-4MXH, January 13 2023 28 12N 8W NWNENENE API: 01725904 Lat: 35.4926681314765, Long: -98.04497983442221 CAMINO NATURAL RESOURCES LLC MU, AM, 21404 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(10725), MISSISSIPPI(10725), WOODFORD(11013) Canadian County BROKEN BOW LAKE 1208 #21-16-6MXH, January 26 2023 28 12N 8W NWNENENE API: 01725905 Lat: 35.49277801940065, Long: -98.04497983669079 CAMINO …
Read More »Broadband bill a step closer in legislature to being sent to Governor
A bill designed to help the state’s Oklahoma Broadband Office provide hundreds of millions of dollars in expanded rural broadband service, won unanimous support Monday in the Oklahoma Senate. But it’s still a few steps away from possibly being signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt. House Bill 1977 …
Read More »OGE restores power to 93% of those who lost power in recent tornadoes
Oklahoma Gas and Electric reported Monday that an estimated 93% of the 23,000 customers who lost electrical power following last Wednesday’s tornadoes had their power restored. In a storm update, the utility explained that it had more than 2,800 OG&E personnel working overnight and early this week in the …
Read More »Summary of fast energy reads
** Two men were sentenced for conspiring to attack U.S. electric substations in a plot motivated by white supremacy and intended to sow civil unrest and economic distress, the U.S. Justice Department said. Christopher Cook, 21, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to 92 months in prison, and Jonathan Frost, 25, of …
Read More »Texas residents oppose LNG terminals approved by Biden administration
The recent decision by the Biden administration to approve two new liquefied natural gas terminals along the Texas coast isn’t exactly being welcomed with open arms by the people in the Rio Grande Valley. They’re fighting the plants and so are environmentalists. As The Hill reported, the Texas residents …
Read More »Corporation commissioners stick to state’s Open Meeting Act
Theoretically, if two of Oklahoma’s three Corporation Commissioners hold even an informal gathering where issues at hand are discussed, it is considered an illegal meeting. Such is the case in point raised last week during the contentious public discussion prior to the commission’s 2-1 vote in favor of approving …
Read More »Fatigue crack blamed for massive oil spill on Keystone pipeline in Kansas
The formal determination of the cause of the Keystone Pipeline leak that flooded 500,000 gallons of crude oil into a Kansas creek last December was announced Friday by operator TC Energy. “The primary cause of the rupture was a progressive fatigue crack that originated at a girth weld connecting …
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