(Steven Van Worth for the Tulsa World) The Illinois River in eastern Oklahoma rose to minor flood level range over the weekend, making it the 18th time in the past 12 months that the river hit a warning stage. Rainfall amounted from 1.5 to 2.5 inches on Saturday in northwest Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma resulting …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has set a special meeting date to consider changes to some of its Oil and Gas Conservation rules. The meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 11 in Courtroom 301 of the Jim Thorpe Office building. It will focus on revised draft amendments to Chapter 10 of the …
The latest completion reports from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission show Newfield Exploration Mid-Con Inc. found more producing wells in Kingfisher, one of the main counties in the STACK play. The company had two wells on a single pad at 13 16N 9W or about 10 miles west of the city of Kingfisher. Combined production on …
A newly-named Producer Water Research Consortium has wrapped up its public meetings and will begin research into the treatment and reuse of produced water in New Mexico. The consortium is a public-private partnership with New Mexico State University and held five meetings across the state, wrapping up last week. Mike Hightower, civil and environmental engineering …
The gross production tax on oil and gas in Oklahoma stumbled slightly in 2019 but in Wyoming, it remained strong as the state amassed more than $1 billion which was a 12 percent increase from 2018. The Casper Start Tribune reported the annual tax revenue report from the Wyoming Economic Analysis Division credited growth in …
Public Service Company of Oklahoma announced a $1.25 million grant from the American Electric Power Foundation that will provide funding to the Gathering Place for world-class learning opportunities to an estimated 75,000 students throughout the region over the next five years. The commitment from AEP Foundation will provide resources for transportation assistance, curriculum development and …
U.S. Sen. James Lankford is out with his fifth Federal Fumbles report detailing hundreds of billions of dollars in what he considers to be wasteful government spending including money spent on energy projects. “This volume of Federal Fumbles does not stop with our broken budget process,” he said in introduced the latest edition. “In fact, …
Layoffs are growing in the Permian Basin of West Texas as the region’s employment has dropped 400 in the first ten months of 2019. Bloomberg News calls it a “drag on jobs creation in the Lone Star state” and a “massive change” from the 16,700 jobs added through the same time period last year. The …
Oklahoma oilman and billionaire Harold Hamm has come out early in his support of one of the Republicans he hopes will unseat first-term Democratic Representative Kendra Horn. Hamm sponsored a fundraiser scheduled for Tuesday in support of David Hill, the Edmond businessman who announced his candidacy in November for the 5th District U.S. House race. …
With a slight uptick in unemployment and a growing drop in oil and gas employment in Oklahoma, a question is being asked—Is Oklahoma’s economy still growing? The answer given by Chad Wilkerson, Vice President and Executive of the Oklahoma City branch of the Federal Reserve Bank is mixed. He spoke recently at an Oklahoma State Senate …