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Gary Gould (left), senior
vice president of production and resource development for Continental
Resources Inc., chats with
KIOGA Chairman Nick
Powell prior to his keynote
address at the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association's midyear meeting, April 19-21 in Garden
City, Ks. Gould extolled
the accomplishments of
Continental Chief Executive Officer Harold Hamm,
whom Gould described as
"the personiļ¬cation of the
American dream."

we are seeing," Gould assessed.
"(Hamm) continues to do things,"
Gould concluded, "not only for our company, but for the industry and for all of
America, to help keep that American
dream alive."

Technical Seminars
In two technical presentations earlier
in the day:
* Mike Wohler, safety sales specialist
with Mid-Continent Safety, a DXP company, discussed confined space entry.
* Russell R. Opfer, advising geophysicist at Lockhart Geophysical, presented "Seismic 101 through 501."

Wohler described the functions and responsibilities of the authorized entrant, attendant, and entrant supervisor, who comprise a permit-required confined space
entry team. He recommended monitoring
for low-explosion-level gases, hydrogen
sulfide, carbon monoxide as well as oxygen,
commenting that too high an oxygen level
could be as dangerous as too little oxygen.
"You want to sample before you go
into the hole. When you come back (after
a break), you sample again because you
don't know what happened while you
were gone," Wohler insisted.
He said it was necessary to sample at
the top of a confined space and every

four feet to the bottom. "Monitor constantly and have a rescue plan in place,"
he encouraged.
Finally, he emphasized proper usage
and the importance of calibrating gas
monitors. "These monitors are one of the
best devices you can have," he said.
"They are meant to save your life, but if
you use them incorrectly, they also can
get you killed."
Opfer ran through the theory of seismic,
leasing and considerations for designing
a survey. Turning to seismic processing,
he reviewed a technique called GravStatĀ®,
which he said employed gravity data to
more accurately mimic well control than
did refraction time structure.
Looking to advances in seismic technology, Opfer presented the Lockhart
Wave acquisition technique, which he
said provided better detail, identified
smaller structures and "gives me a better
feel for the geology," without increasing
survey sweep frequency.
He said a wave pattern was more efficient to shoot, enabling a seismic survey
to obtain 30 percent more source and receiver points from the same number of
squares in a day as from a brick pattern,
which he said resulted in a higher quality
survey at the same or lower cost, especially
when considering the higher success rate
the Lockhart Wave could achieve.
r

Lawsuits Halted On EPA Energy Rules
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has halted proceedings in lawsuits
challenging a pair of the Obama administration's energy regulations while the
Environmental Protection Agency reconsiders the rules.
The first court order came April 28,
according to association reports, when
the D.C. Circuit issued a temporary stay
in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, which consolidated a variety of challenges filed against EPA's
Clean Power Plan. The second order was
released May 18, and indefinitely postponed proceedings in lawsuits challenging
EPA's methane emissions rule for new,
modified or reconstructed oil and gas
sources, Subpart OOOOa.
The Obama-administration EPA released
the Clean Power Plan in August 2015 to
force states to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power generation by 32 percent
below 2005 levels by 2030 (AOGR, September 2015, pg. 158). The final methane
rule was announced in May 2016, and
was published in the June 3 Federal Register
(AOGR, July 2016, pg. l01).

The Independent Petroleum Association of America reports the D.C. Circuit
stayed the Subpart OOOOa lawsuit indefinitely, and directed EPA to file 60day status reports updating the court on
its review of the rule.
Several states as well as an industry
coalition that included IPAA challenged
the methane rule in cases that eventually
were consolidated under North Dakota
v. Environmental Protection Agency
(AOGR, November 2016, pg. 30). The
industry groups also filed a request with
EPA to reconsider the regulation.
The Texas Alliance of Energy Producers points out that in March, President
Trump signed an executive order directing
EPA to review Subpart OOOOa, and in
early April, administration lawyers asked
the court to hold the case in abeyance
while EPA conducted its review.
In its motion, the administration stated,
"If EPA's review concludes that suspension, revision or rescission of this rule
may be appropriate, EPA's review will
be followed by a rule-making process
that will be transparent, follow proper
administrative procedures, include ap-

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propriate engagement with the public,
employ sound science, and be firmly
grounded in the law," according to the
Alliance.
At the same time, IPAA says, it was
informed by EPA that it was granting industry's request to reconsider the rule.
"Among the issues raised in the petitions
that meet the requirements for reconsideration . . . are objections regarding the
provisions for requesting and receiving
an alternative means of emissions limitations, and the inclusion of low-production
wells," EPA's letter to the industry petitioners states. "These provisions were
not included in the proposed rule so the
public could not have raised objections
during the public comment period."
The letter also indicates that EPA is
staying compliance with Subpart OOOOa
for 90 days.
Clean Power Plan
The Trump administration also requested the D.C. Circuit halt deliberations
on the Clean Power Plan so EPA could
take another look at that rule as well, observes the Texas Independent Producers



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