A week after forming join ventures to build pipelines linking shale fields in West Texas and North Dakota to the Cushing, Oklahoma oil hub and the US Gulf Coast, Phillips 66 is proposing a deepwater crude export terminal off the Gulf Coast. The company, with major operations in Bartlesville made the announcement this week that …
One of the largest privately-owned solar systems in Kansas is in operation with a goal of producing electricity for the public schools in Maize, a town in Sedgwick County. And school officials in Norman, Oklahoma are interested in perhaps doing the same thing. It was earlier this month when the system went live with …
Marathon Petroleum, the Houston company that just filed completion reports on two STACK wells with production of 2,200 to 2,500 barrels each announced the signing of two long-term supply agreements with Air Liquide. It means Air Liquide will provide up to 900 tons a day of oxygen for Marathon refineries in Texas City, Texas and …
A week after announcing new financial guidance for the remainder of 2019, Oklahoma City-based Roan Resources, Inc. announced it received commitments for a $100 million term loan facility. The commitments are from funds affiliated with “certain significant shareholders of the company that are represented on the board of directors,” stated the announcement. As part of …
The sound of buzz saws filled the air in Pauls Valley and other southern Oklahoma towns and cities on Wednesday. And likely the chain saws are still busy following the early Wednesday morning storm that skipped across the southern part of the state and packed winds estimated at 100 miles an hour. “We don’t know …
Oklahoma’s aircraft industry is getting another boost with this week’s announcement by Pratt and Whitney that it is expanding operations at Tinker Air Force Base. The company made the announcement at the Paris Air show where Gov. Kevin Stitt and company representatives are among those from Oklahoma in attendance. The firm said the expansion includes …
Two of the largest wells in the STACK to be reported in a few months have been brought in by Houston’s Marathon Petroleum, the largest with production of more than 2,500 barrels of oil a day. Both were drilled on the same pad located at 27 17N 10W or about 5 miles southeast of the …
On the last day of Spring 2019 in Oklahoma, the state issued an ozone watch for Oklahoma City, Lawton and Tulsa as temperatures were to push into the 90s. Southwest Oklahoma was expected to have high temperatures of 97 and some areas could even have hit 100 degrees. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality …
Winds of 80 to 100 mph were part of a strong series of thunderstorms that raced across southern Oklahoma early Wednesday morning, blowing over semi-trucks on I-35, knocking down trees and power lines and leaving thousands without electrical power. A reported five semi-trucks were blown off the Interstate at Pauls Valley, leaving one of the …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission meets Thursday to consider rules to enforce a new law regarding trains that block street intersections. The Commission started holding technical conferences back in January to get input. In January, the Commission wanted the ability to conduct a compliance audit should a train block a crossing more than 10 …