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Adjustments made at Pioneer Natural Resources
With investors hesitating to invest as much money as they have in the past in the nation’s oil and gas industry, it means belt tightening for a lot of firms. Ask Scott Sheffield, who returned as Chief Executive at Dallas-based Pioneer Natural Resources Company, a firm he had built into a leader of the country’s …
Pruitt’s Superfund site plans cleared by IG’s report
The Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency is giving a clean bill of health to how a 2017 Superfund Task force created by former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt performed its duties. And a new report downplays concerns of environmentalists that Pruitt would play politics with Superfund sites. “The EPA complied with applicable laws and …
Nation’s latest large solar farm going up in Nevada
One of the nation’s latest large solar farm projects will be in Clark County, Nevada where EDF Renewables North America is building the 200 megawatt Arrow Canyon Solar Project. EDF signed a power purchase agreement with NV Energy and clean electricity is expected to be delivered beginning in December 2022. What is unique about the …
Colorado driller hits 2,200 barrel a day well in western Oklahoma
Oklahoma’s largest well this week, one with production of nearly 2,200 barrels of oil a day is not in the STACK. Not in the SCOOP. It’s only a few miles from the state line in far western Oklahoma’s Roger Mills County where Denver, Colorado-based FourPoint Energy LLC drilled the Freezeout 17×8-11-26 1hc. The well is …
Oklahoma joins coalition exploring produced water possibilities
Representatives from Oklahoma, as a part of the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC), worked collaboratively with scientists, regulatory officials, members of academia, the oil and gas industry, and environmental groups to explore roles produced water might play in developing greater water certainty. Out of that effort, the GWPC has released a report that examines current …
Growing frac sand industry in Oklahoma and Texas puts mining operators out of business in Wisconsin
The move by frac sand companies to open mining operations in Oklahoma and Texas in recent years has left Wisconsin’s frac-sand industry with piles of unused product. In short, Wisconsin’s industry is hurting because of the competition, according to a report by the Associated Press. Kent Syverson, a geology professor at the University of …
Permits to drill for June 24, 2019
Permits to drill filed on June 24, 2019. Blaine County TRUETT HURST #1-19H, June 24 2019 30 17N 11W NESENWNW API: 01124227 Lat: 35.92504008023793, Long: -98.41950958717499 ACACIA EXPLORATION PARTNERS LLC HH, DR, 15630 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(10500) Canadian County CARPENTER 1306 #3-24MH, June 24 2019 24 13N 6W SESESWSW API: 01725488 Lat: 35.580739381832544, Long: -97.79478154647309 RED BLUFF RESOURCES …
Completion reports for June 24, 2019
Completion reports filed on June 24, 2019. BECKHAM COUNTY Fourpoint Energy Llc Missourian (upper Granite Wash): Oil 724 Gas 6670 Water 840 Flow 14 10N 25W Rollie 2×11-10-25 1ha, September 18, 2018 HH, GAS, TD: 21800 ft Lat: 35.34851, Long: -99.81830 API: 35009219960000 GRADY COUNTY Camino Natural Resources Llc Woodford(15447): Oil 85 Gas 12341 Water 2918 Flow 8 7N 7W Jaxon 8-5-1xh, August 15, 2018 HH, …
Electrical power is restored to city of Lindsay
After a loss electrical power because lightning struck an electrical substation, the 3,000 residents of Lindsay once again have their electricity on. Workers of the Grand River Dam Authority worked since Sunday afternoon when a storm rolled through south central Oklahoma. Power was restored Monday around 4 a.m. “About 30 minutes after we lost power …
Court of Appeals finds part of Workers’ Compensation Act unconstitutional
Eight years after Robert Young fell to his death while working as a roofer for Oklahoma Roofing and Sheet Metal company in Oklahoma City, his death has led to the state Court of Civil Appeals declaring part of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation law unconstitutional. In a ruling this month, the court declared that the exclusive …