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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 …
Read More »Oklahoma had hottest summer in 11 years
The Oklahoma Mesonet on Thursday reported Oklahoma just experienced its hottest summer on record since 2011. The state finished August with a statewide average of 82.7 degrees according to Gary McManus, State Climatologist with the Mesonet. “On the whole, August was still well above normal and contributed to the hottest …
Read More »Oklahoma town without water drills emergency well
Fresh water might soon return to the Seminole County town of Sasakwa where residents struggled through the summer without water. An emergency well was drilled in the town and water testing is underway reported NonDoc. Click here for NonDoc
Read More »Oklahoma’s electricity rates climbed the fastest in the past year
Where are electricity rates climbing the fastest in the U.S.? Right in Oklahoma according to recent data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The state saw a 49% increase from June 2021 to June of this year according to a report by Alliance for Electrical Restructuring in Oklahoma. The state …
Read More »Permits to drill for August 31, 2022
Alfalfa County PRESNALL TRUST #2-6, August 18 2022 06 24N 12W NWSESWNW API: 00323414 Lat: 36.58865796471741, Long: -98.53080709298669 KLO LLC SH, DR, 6100 ft, DOUGLAS(4537), COTTAGE GROVE(5295) Alfalfa County DAVIS 7-28-11 #2H, August 31 2022 07 28N 11W SESESWSE API: 00323416 Lat: 36.913964869800616, Long: -98.41903103818541 BCE-MACH LLC HH, DR, 10362 ft, MISSISSIPPI(5048) …
Read More »Completion reports for August 31, 2022
CADDO COUNTY Urban Oil & Gas Group Llc 27 12N 12W Brooks 1-27, April 29, 2022 SH, DRY, TD: 12200 ft Lat: 35.48334, Long: -98.45907 API: 35015225640001 CARTER COUNTY C E Harmon Oil Inc Springer Sand: Oil 40 Gas 33 Water 30 Pump 7 2S 3W Dotson B #4, March 03, 2022 SH, OIL, TD: 15453 ft …
Read More »Crude oil prices dropped again and so did OK energy stocks
Growing worries that the global economy will only worsen because of China’s renewed COVID-19 restrictions sent crude oil prices slumping even more on Wednesday. Oklahoma energy prices ended up with a weak day of trading. West Texas Intermediate crude for October delivery dropped $2.09 to $89.55 a barrel on …
Read More »West Texas pipeline expansion planned by Magellan Midstream
Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. announced this week plans for a $125 million expansion of its refined petroleum productions pipeline system in southwest Texas. The Tulsa-based company plans to extend the system from the Houston area to El Paso, Texas. It currently is capable of transporting nearly 70,000 barrels of …
Read More »Texas creates rules to prepare utilities and energy firms for extreme weather
Texas regulators took the step this week to make sure their natural gas companies are ready for extreme weather—the kind of weather the state experienced in February 2021 when there were massive power outages and people died without heat. New rules adopted by the Texas Railroad Commission require oil …
Read More »And you thought we were finished with Keystone XL pipeline fight
We haven’t seen the last of the fight over the now-abandoned Keystone XL pipeline project, the one cancelled by President Biden in his first week in office. Now an Indigenous-backed energy company wants more than $38 million from Keystone operator TC Energy Corp. Bloomberg reports Natural Law Energy Inc., a …
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