Six months after two window washers had to be rescued from near the top of the 50-story Devon Tower in downtown Oklahoma City, repairs to the smashed windows are about to get underway. “We’ve acquired the custom-fitted materials needed to begin the restoration process and crews have been preparing for the word ahead,” Devon Energy …
For the second time in a year, investment fund Firefly Value Partners has gone public with its criticism of Oklahoma City’s Gulfport Energy and asked for a seat on its board of directors. In a public letter, Firefly was critical of Gulfport’s “half-measures” to improve financial performance. The public letter came only a few days …
Houston’s Marathon Oil Company reports hitting a well in Garvin County with production of nearly 2,000 barrels of oil a day. The Newby 0304-2-18sh is located at 18 3N 4W or several miles southwest of the city of Lindsay and in the four-county area that comprises the SCOOP play. The completion report showed initial production …
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has approved a major set of regulations intended to better map thousands of miles of underground oil and gas lines. The approval of the rules was due to the 2017 home explosion in the city of Firestone which killed two men according to the Denver Post. The rules …
As the LNG industry grows and grows, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has okayed nearly $39 billion in three new LNG projects at the Port of Brownsville in Texas. The gas is shipped from oil and gas plays throughout the U.S. including Oklahoma. “Today’s announcement is another significant milestone in making these energy projects a …
The city of Tulsa is hoping a $350,000 grant it is seeking will be approved by the EPA to help convert a contaminated building near downtown into a place to help fledgling businesses grow. The City of Tulsa is applying for an Environmental Protection Agency Brownfield grant to clean out its surplus auction building, according …
A 40-acre solar farm will be created in an agreement reached recently between the Norman Board of Education and the Oklahoma Electric Cooperative. The farm will create the 2 MW ground solar array to provide electricity to Norman Public schools. Per the agreement, the array will contain 7,208 panels — eight times the size of …
Another rollback of Obama-era regulations drew the applause recently of Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe. He responded after the Environmental Protection Agency announced a revised and final rule for Risk Management Program Reconsideration affecting chemical operations and first responders. The Senator agreed with the EPA that the action improves the existing rule to remove “burdensome, …
More than a week after Chinese national Hongin Tan pleaded guilty in Tulsa U.S. District Court to stealing Phillips 66 trade secrets from the Bartlesville lab where he worked, another Chinese national has been charged similarly in Missouri. Haitao Xiang, 42, an employee of Monsanta and its Climate Corp subsidiary from 2008 to 2017 was …
Permian billionaire investors Farris and Dan Wilks in North Texas might be wondering about where they put their money after at least one company has filed bankruptcy, another is considering it and others have faltered in the past few years. Some of those investments have Oklahoma connections. The two became billionaires when they sold their …