An erratic day of trading yielded another drop in crude oil prices on Tuesday as investors agonized over an OPEC meeting to discuss further production cuts, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, September West Texas Intermediate futures slid 22 cents, or 0.5% to settle at $49.17 a barrel. October Brent crude, the global …
August 8, 2017 archive
Completion Reports August 9, 2017
CANADIAN COUNTY Jones Energy Llc Woodford(10465): Oil 277 Gas 3298 Water 904 Flow 20 12N 7W Bomhoff 20-12-7 1h, May 27, 2017 HH, OIL, TD: 15212 ft Lat: 35.49414, Long: -97.97157 API: 35017249680001 GARVIN COUNTY Downhole Tech Llc 13 3N 1E Calvin Chisholm 2, July 18, 2017 SH, TA, TD: 3051 ft Lat: 34.73403, Long: -97.15243 API: 35049384860002 Downhole Tech Llc 13 …
Permits to Drill August 9, 2017
Canadian County BR MCCABE 1409 #1-3-34MXH, August 07 2017 03 14N 9W NESESESE API: 01725051 Lat: 35.71205936307162, Long: -98.13692201617638 MARATHON OIL COMPANY HH, DR, 20593 ft, MISSISSIPPI SOLID(9219) Creek County CHICKENMAN #1-3, August 02 2017 03 14N 10E CNWNWSE API: 03729379 Lat: 35.71792398818683, Long: -96.2357403219339 WFD OIL CORPORATION SH, AM, 3200 ft, RED FORK(1800), BARTLESVILLE(2200), TANEHA(2315), …
$16 million Mineral Rights Sale for 880 Acres in Blaine County
Edmond’s EK Energy and Exploration Company was the high bidder for the June sale of mineral rights to 880 acres of Blaine county land at a price of nearly $17 million dollars. The June 20 auction was handled by Farm Service Company of Chickasha where spokesman Cody J. White indicated the sale involved 5 …
Keystone XL Fight Begins in Nebraska
Critics of TransCanada Corp.’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline are getting their chance this week to grill developers as they go before the Nebraska Public Service Commission. An evidentiary hearing on the pipeline is underway and already there have been sharp and pointed exchanges between witnesses and attorneys for those fighting the pipeline. As E & …
Tribes Want Dakota Access Pipeline Shut Down Pending More Studies
Two American Indian tribes are telling a federal court the Dakota Access pipeline, the one targeted by Oklahomans and other environmental activists last year must be shut down while the Trump administration reconsiders its environmental impact. Attorneys for the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes filed a brief this week with the U.S. District …
Land Given to OU Turns into a Gold Mine for the School
The resurgence of oil and gas exploration in Oklahoma has turned out to be a surprising source of new revenue for the University of Oklahoma. As Bloomberg News reported recently, the university has been the recipient of millions of dollars from mineral rights on land given to the school decades ago. Until recently, the mineral …
Coal Miner Killed in Northwest Colorado
A worker at a northwestern Colorado coal processing plant has become the 11th person to die at a coal mine in the U.S. this year. The 32-year old man was a surface mechanic at a mine operated by Blue Mountain Energy Co. near the small community of Rangely. He was found under a two-ton container …
Jones Energy Produces 8 New Oklahoma Wells—Focusing Now Solely on Anadarko Basin
Austin, Texas-based Jones Energy continues moving eastward in Oklahoma with its drilling exploration, making three finds in Canadian County, not to mention 7 other wells around the state. And it is moving to focus only in the Anadarko Basin. As reported on OK Energy Today’s well completion reports, the company had a multi-unit operation at the …
New Software to Help DOT Inspect Bridges Following Earthquakes
The Oklahoma Transportation Department has resorted to high-technology in the wake of the surge of earthquakes in the state. It has implemented the use of “ShakeCast”, a program created by the U.S. Geological Survey to help assess any damage to existing bridges. ShakeCast is in the final stage of a two-year, two-phase nearly $650,000 contract …
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