{"id":9358,"date":"2012-08-30T10:34:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T15:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=9358"},"modified":"2012-12-19T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T20:56:21","slug":"oil-and-gas-boom-outgrowing-electrical-infrastructure-in-rural-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/08\/30\/oil-and-gas-boom-outgrowing-electrical-infrastructure-in-rural-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil and Gas Boom Outgrowing Electrical Infrastructure in Rural Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma is enjoying an oil and gas boom. But drilling rigs and other petroleum exploration and production equipment are power-hungry machines, and rural parts of the state are having a hard time meeting the electricity demand.<\/p><p>The problem is particularly bad in northern Oklahoma&#8217;s Mississippi Lime formation, <em>The Journal Record<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/journalrecord.com\/2012\/08\/29\/powering-an-energy-industry-boom-oil-field-need-for-electricity-immediate-but-building-infrastructure-takes-time-energy\/\">Sarah Terry-Cobo reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But while the needs of oil and gas companies are immediate, it can take months, even years, to build electrical infrastructure to meet the industry\u2019s needs.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->The basic problem: Energy companies are drilling in areas without any power lines, Terry-Cobo reports. One company, SandRidge, has to buy and rent generators to keep rig sites powered.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The company works hard to keep well site power costs in check, but electricity usage comprises 20 to 25 percent of the cost to drill a well, he said. Sosa is working with electric cooperatives in the area to balance the need for power at peak times, between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., so the grid isn\u2019t pushed to the maximum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma is enjoying an oil and gas boom. But drilling rigs and other petroleum exploration and production equipment are power-hungry machines, and rural parts of the state are having a hard time meeting the electricity demand.The problem is particularly bad in northern Oklahoma&#8217;s Mississippi Lime formation, The Journal Record&#8216;s Sarah Terry-Cobo reports: But while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490,301],"tags":[419,276],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9362,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions\/9362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}