News from the Oklahoma Corporation
Commission
Phone: (405)
521-4180, FAX: (405) 522-1623, m.skinner@occmail.occ.state.ok.us
OIL
AND GAS PRODUCTION NUMBERS SHOW GAINS IN OKLAHOMA
(Oklahoma City) The latest Oklahoma
Corporation Commission report on oil and natural gas production in Oklahoma
puts total oil production in Oklahoma for March 2002 at 6,802,614 barrels.
That’s a jump of 1,838,939 barrels from February’s total of 4,963,675 barrels,
and an increase of 1,133,137 barrels from January 2002.
Natural
gas production also showed an increase. Total natural gas production for March
2002 was 107,212,911 mcf, an increase of
2,406,964 mcf from February’s total of 104,805,947 mcf. However, March’s
gas production number was still 9,249,450 mcf below the January 2002 production
of 116,462,361 mcf.
EDITORS,
PLEASE NOTE: ATTACHED IS A PDF FILE SHOWING THE COUNTY-BY-COUNTY BREAKDOWN OF
THE PRODUCTION NUMBERS. YOU WILL NEED
ACROBAT READER TO OPEN THE FILE, WHICH CAN BE DOWNLOADED FREE FROM http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.
FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION ON OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION IN OKLAHOMA, CALL LARRY CLAXTON,
MANAGER – STATISTICS/SURETY DEPARTMENT, OIL AND GAS DIVISION, OKLAHOMA
CORPORATION COMMISSION (405) 521-2273.
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