Nine Energy, the Houston company with operations in Oklahoma has won a federal court ruling in an arbitration fight in New Mexico Federal court. U.S. District Judge James O. Browning ruled in favor of the firm after it was sued by Ryan Patterson who accused the firm of failing to pay him and other workers …
The billionaire Koch brothers say they’re going to use their energy money to support eight House Republicans in tight races across the country. Since none of those tight races is believed to be in Oklahoma, no U.S. Representatives in the state will be getting their money. In announcing the support, the political network created by …
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey K. Skilling is out of prison after serving 8 years in connection with the notorious corporate fraud case in Houston, Texas. He is now 64 and was originally convicted of 12 counts of securities fraud, five counts of making false statements to auditors, one count of insider trading and one count …
Efforts of the EPA to override an Obama-era plan to curb haze-forming sulfur dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants in Texas could end up affecting the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge near Lawton, Oklahoma. That’s because the Texas haze plan was meant in part to curb the haze that made its way north into southern Oklahoma. …
In the Permian Basin where water and wastewater disposal are nearly as important as crude oil, Oilfield Water Logistics announced completion of a high capacity pipeline linking more than 200 miles of water pipeline gathering. The firm’s Hat Connection project is across the Northern Delaware Basin in Lea County, New Mexico. At the same time, …
At least one investment adviser is letting its clients know of the fall in oil production in Texas. Seeking Alpha alerted its followers in recent days how the Texas oil production fell in June from last year for the first time in 16 months. It called it a sign that the lack of pipeline takeaway …
NextEra Energy, one of the largest wind-farm operators in the nation is accused of possibly violating Oklahoma’s new law that protects the air space around military installations. The story was reported by News 9 which indicated NextEra’s turbine construction near Hinton could create a test case for the law. Here’s how the story was reported: …
Just as the Oklahoma Energy Index reported a growing expansion of the state’s oil and gas industry this week, the state’s jobless rate also dropped in July. And what’s different this time is that the rates dropped in every one of the 77 counties, according to the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. Latimer County had the …
Some critics of oil and gas in Oklahoma used to describe the wastewater injection well operations and the earthquakes they might have caused as a ‘nightmare’. Now it’s the word used to describe what’s happening in the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico. As the nation’s largest oil play with nearly 485 rigs actively …
Former Oklahoma congressman Jim Bridenstine’s latest idea as head of NASA is creating smiles for some. He wants the faces of U.S. astronauts on cereal boxes. If Michael Jordan and other athletes like Oklahoma’s late Mickey Mantle can be there, why not space heroes? “We’re talking about, potentially — Is it possible for NASA to …