Tag: hydrocarbons
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – February 2016
Check out the February “follow-up” edition of RMP’s Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly magazine. This month we revisit the Word of Faith 16-27 application for an oil well in the City of Southfield. Thousands of comments have been received and made public by the MDEQ. This month we take a closer look at public sentiment…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – January 2016
Why is a picture of a Colorado license plate the featured image for the first Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly of 2016? What does Colorado have to do with Michigan oil & gas? Read the January 2016 edition of MOGM to find out. This is our 13th issue marking the beginning of our sophomore year.…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – December 2015
This month in RMP’s Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly (MOGM) we look back on the slowest year ever in Michigan oil & gas activity. 1931 previously held the record for slowest year in Michigan history for oil & gas but no longer. 2015 was the slowest year ever for Michigan oil & gas activity. With…
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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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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 – 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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Responsibly Migrating Away from Crude Oil
Read this post about the responsible migration away from crude oil and all the associated benefits it would have for American taxpayers. We can responsibly phase out internal combustion engines and improve our economy and national security. Energy is a tax and the companies that sell us that energy at a profit have formed a…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – February 2015
Check out the February 2015 edition of the Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly magazine. Read this post on activity in the Michigan oil patch in the month February or check out the video edition of the same. Check back each month to stay up to date on all activity related to oil & gas in…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – January 2015
Check out our very first edition of the Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly magazine. We will be recapping application, permitting, production, and other information related oil & gas activity in Michigan each month. Want to know what is going on in Michigan as it relates to oil & gas and all things energy? Follow us…