Tag: oil & gas
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2016 Michigan Hydrocarbon Production Results – Full Year
RMP publishes 2016 hydrocarbon production data. Check out this post to see how much oil, natural gas, and NGLs were produced in Michigan in 2016. We have charts, graphs, and numbers and three different top 10 lists.
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – July 2016
This month a group calling themselves the MICATS staged a protest at Attorney General Bill Schuette’s home in Midland, Michigan. The Detroit News has a story here. For the record, I have never supported extremist groups or individuals like those in MICATS and neither has respectmyplanet.org. I don’t know them, affiliate with them, or in any way…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – June 2016
In this month’s MOGM, RMP covers the dearth of oil & gas activity in Michigan and the bankruptcies precipitated by the collapse of the industry at large. We also talk about finances and economics of the Hydrogen Economy and how Michigan and the rest of the world can prosper by supporting Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles.…
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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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Enbridge Line 5 Crude Oil Leak – North Straits Pump Station Near Lake Michigan Shoreline
Read about the oil spill at Enbridge Line 5’s North Straits Pump Station. Over 361 tons of contaminated soil were removed from the North Straits Pump Station which sits 100 yards from the northern shoreline of Lake Michigan on the Straits of Mackinac.
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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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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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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…