Marathon Oil reports hitting it big in Blaine County with two wells on a single pad site bringing total production of 4,912 barrels of oil a day. The Houston company reported the Lloyd 1710 wells are located at 25 17N 10W or about 8 miles southeast of the town of Hitchcock near the Lomega High …
The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission gets a new Administrative Law Judge who will handle cases filed by injured energy workers and others in the state. Attorney John Blodgett has been named to the position of ALJ effective Sept. 3, 2019. He will be filling a newly created ALJ position in Oklahoma City. He will report …
A new reported called Renewables on the Rise 2019 shows Oklahoma remains a strong and solid number two in the U.S. when it comes to wind-generated energy. And its wind-energy growth gets high rankings. The report stated, “Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa and Illinois experienced the greatest total increases in wind energy generation from 2009 to …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is blunt in his response to the corn industry’s criticism of Renewable Fuel Standard waivers granted by the EPA to 31 refineries in the U.S. Here’s how POLITICOS’s Morning Energy Report noted what the Senator had to state. The Trump administration is considering reallocating the volumes of ethanol that were …
The issue of waivers granted 31 refiners from Renewable Fuel Standards is a hot one in Iowa where corn growers are upset over the Trump administration’s recent decision. POLITICO’s Morning Energy Report explained how the EPA’s internal watchdog is being asked to determine how the agency decided to grant the vast majority of exemptions …
Pembina Pipeline Corp. increased its bet on the future of Canada’s turbulent oil-sands industry, agreeing to buy Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Canadian unit and the U.S. portion of a key pipeline for about $3.3 billion. Bloomberg News reports the deal makes Pembina a major player in the oil-storage business, giving it 10 million barrels of capacity …
After four weeks in Boise, the NASA and NOAA Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, or FIREX-AQ, research project will spend the next two and a half weeks in Salina exploring trace gasses and aerosol in smoke. The overall objective of the project is to improve the understanding of how wildfires …
Helmerich & Payne, Inc. in Tulsa announced today its wholly owned subsidiary, Helmerich & Payne Technologies, LLC, has acquired DrillScan, a leading provider of proprietary drilling engineering software, well engineering services and training for the oil and gas industry. No terms were revealed in the announcement. DrillScan will operate as part of H&P Technologies, H&P’s …
A member of the board of directors at Tulsa-based ONE Gas Inc. has also joined the board of directors of Denver-based Whiting Petroleum Corporation. Whiting announced Michael G. Hutchinson, a retired partner at Deloitte and Touche will join the company’s board of directors effective Sept. 1, 2019. Hutchinson retired in 2012 and previously was the …
The Chinese national charged with stealing nearly $1 billion in technology from the Phillips 66 research center in Bartlesville isn’t the only foreign national facing such charges in the Oklahoma and Kansas region. A researcher at the University of Kansas was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of hiding the fact that he was working full time …