Category: Michigan
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – October 2015
In the October 2015 edition of MOGM we see application and permitting activity continue to be slow keeping us on pace to be another of the slowest years of permitting activity in Michigan history. Two more original Collingwood HVHF wells were plugged this month dropping a couple more nails in the coffin of the Collingwood…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Production Report January – June 2015
The first six months of hydrocarbon production in the Michigan Basin are ready for reporting. In this post we examine the top ten producers in the oil, natural gas, and NGL categories. We find in 2015 that wells originally drilled in completed in the 1970’s and 1980’s are outperforming so new wells after having been…
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Kalamazoo River Oil Spill
It’s been 5 years since Enbridge Energy’s Line 6B pipeline ruptured and spilled over 800,000 gallons of heavy crude oil into Talmadge Creek. Talmadge Creek is a tributary to the Kalamazoo River which outfalls to Lake Michigan. The Line 6B spill was the biggest and costliest inland spill in US history and it happened in…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – September 2015
The top story in September in the Michigan Basin continues to be Marathon Oil’s new applications and activity. Things move pretty slowly in oil & gas developments so we will keep on eye on their activity to see if it brings any new life to Michigan’s anemic oil & gas industry. So far this year,…
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Secret Science – Marathon Oil’s 2015 Activity In The Michigan Basin
Marathon Oil’s Science well is a part 625 well. A part 625 well has all its information held secret for 10 years. Marathon cleared some State of Michigan owned forest area and started a mineral test well. In the coming month’s, Marathon might be back to this same general location to drill the State Beaver…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – August 2015
In the August 2015 MOGM, we take a look at the possibility of operating Antrim gas wells on a vacuum. We also talk about natural gas and synthetic natural gas. Natural gas is a part of our environment and always will be as long as there are living things.
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – July 2015
The big story in July of 2015 is the expiration of 8 HVHF permits to drill into the Ordivician Collingwood. These permits expiring is just the latest piece of evidence in a long line of recent indications that HVHF in Michigan using millions of gallons of water per frac is over. RMP has been covering…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – June 2015
In the June 2015 Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly, we continue to see what we have been seeing every month for the past five years: not much. We are on pace to have the slowest permitting year in Michigan’s 88 year oil & gas history. We have been hearing from media outlets about how High…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – May 2015
In the May 2015 edition of the Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly we take a look at using CO2 as a fracing fluid. CO2 is interesting in that it can have properties of a solid, liquid, and gas simultaneously. Remember dry ice for making fog before modern fog machines? Remember how CO2 mysteriously turned from…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – April 2015
Check out the April 2015 issue of the Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly magazine. Year to date Michigan has received 31 applications for new wells, issued 36 permits for new wells or reentry into old ones, and has published plugging information for 103 wells. The Lucas 1-13HD1 well was issued plugging instructions. The Sherwood 1-22HD1…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – March 2015
Check out the March 2015 issue of the Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly magazine. Year to date Michigan has received 21 applications for new wells, issued 28 permits for new wells or reentry into old ones, and has published plugging information for 98 wells. The permits expired for GeoSouthern’s McKenney 1-27P & 1-27 HD1 well…
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Analysis of Michigan Department of Environmental Quality High Volume Hydraulically Fractured Well Completions and Applications
If you would like to learn more about High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing in the Michigan Basin, click through to read an analysis paper about HVHF in Michigan that is hosted by Friends of Au Gres-Rifle Watershed. RMP has teamed up with FAR Watershed to publish this informative exposition of HVHF in Michigan since its inception…