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Tallgrass Energy gets major support for new pipeline to carry Cushing crude to Louisiana
Tallgrass Energy, LP, the Kansas City area based midstream company announced it’s made a binding agreement with a firm to be the potential to be an anchor shipper on a line to move crude from Cushing south to Louisiana. Tallgrass wouldn’t name the third-party but said it has the potential to be an anchor shipper …
GM plant closures bring back similar nightmares in Oklahoma
That brush of north wind in Oklahoma might not be mother nature but more of a gigantic sigh of relief in Kansas City that the GM plant wasn’t among five proposed by General Motors to be closed. The company is also planning a reduction of its workforce by an estimated 14,000 workers. The Fairfax plant …
Oklahoma regulators continue work on emergency wind farm rules to protect military flight routes
Emergency wind rules are being taken up by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission following the controversial stoppage of construction of a Hinton wind farm because it appeared to violate a new state law designed to protect military flight spaces. New rules were adopted earlier in the month but there have been additional changes so the rules …
Boil order issued for rural water district near McAlester
State environmental regulators say they’ve found a rural water district in Oklahoma where users need to boil their water. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has advised the Pittsburg County RWD #14 water system, located in Pittsburg County, to inform its customers and users of its drinking water to use water that has been brought to …
Completion reports for Nov. 26, 2018
Completion reports for Nov. 26, 2018. GARVIN COUNTY Marathon Oil Company Woodford(13613): Oil 703 Gas 7046 Water 2683 Flow 5 3N 4W Luigi 0304 1-5-32wxh, August 22, 2018 HH, OIL, TD: 21906 ft Lat: 34.76059, Long: -97.63418 API: 35049251770001 KINGFISHER COUNTY Oklahoma Energy Acquisitions Lp Mississippian (less Chester): Oil 103 Gas 384 Water 927 Gas Lift 32 17N 5W Sawgrass 1705 8-32mh, June 09, 2018 …
Permits to drill for Nov. 26, 2018
Permits to drill for Nov. 26, 2018. Canadian County ALVERSTONE 1206 #1LMH-17, October 15 2018 17 12N 6W NWSWSWSW API: 01725284 Lat: 35.50925545607084, Long: -97.86552114518281 CHAPARRAL ENERGY LLC HH, AM, 13900 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(8864) Grady County NANCY J #3-33-28-21XHS, November 26 2018 33 7N 6W NESESENW API: 05124526 Lat: 35.03776115738778, Long: -97.83881107892742 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC HH, DR, 25339 …
More quakes leave OCC staffers ‘baffled’
Two Monday morning earthquakes in southern Oklahoma are a puzzle to the oil and gas workers at the State Corporation Commission. Plus, continued quakes around the Bridge Creek Community have them scrambling as they continued to get complaints from area residents. “We’re actively investigating this late round of quakes,” said Matt Skinner, a spokesman for …
OCC to hold public meeting Tuesday on PSO plan
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission holds a regular meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 27. The 1:30 p.m. meeting in the Jim Thorpe Building will focus on a technical conference for stakeholders to review and discuss PSO’s 2018 Integrated Resource Plan. No vote is anticipated and the agenda indicated that some commissioners might attend.
Oklahoma oil and gas firms help dig Wyoming out of its economic bust
The oil and gas industry is getting a lot of the credit for driving the state of Wyoming out of its economic bus, and those Oklahoma companies exploring there have played a big role. Not to mention the midstream operations that move the crude from Wyoming southward to the Cushing hub and eventually to the …
Gas flaring rules to ease in North Dakota
The state of North Dakota has eased its flaring rules but plans to keep its gas capture goal of 88 percent. And the move will have a definite impact on the Oklahoma energy firms carrying out oil and gas exploration in the Bakken. Bruce Hicks, Asst. Director of the North Dakota Mineral Resources Oil and …