April is National Safe Digging Month, and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission is reminding Oklahomans that any outdoor digging project this spring should start with a phone call. Commission Chairman Dana Murphy says dialing 8-1-1 can save you from a terrible accident. “There’s more than just earth beneath your feet,” said Murphy. “Oklahoma has thousands of miles of buried pipeline and utility cable. The only …
As he attempts to take over the board of directors at Oklahoma City-based SandRidge Energy, activist Carl Icahn has unveiled his proposed list of five directors. He revealed their names this week in his proxy fight with the company. They include: Jonathan Frates, Nicholas Graziano, John J. “Jack” Lipinski, Bob G. Alexander and Randolph C. …
Oklahoma Congressman Jim Bridenstine might learn this week if he is going to become the new administrator of NASA. The U.S. is reported to be poised to vote on his second nomination by President Donald Trump. The first failed to make it to the Senate before the end of the congressional session in 2017, prompting …
Tulsa’s big coal companies, Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. and Alliance Holdings GP, L.P. plan to report their first quarter 2018 financial results on April 30. The company will release the report prior to the opening of the market on that Monday. Management will then hold a conference call at 9 a.m. Central Time to discuss …
Yet another crude oil pipeline is carrying crude directly to South Texas ports and refineries rather than to the Cushing hub in northern Oklahoma. Days after we reported how Cushing was losing some of its influence in the crude oil market and how more and more pipelines were carrying oil directly to market, Enterprise Products …
With major operations in Bartlesville, ConocoPhillips is in the process of expanding into Alaska and reported this week the conclusion of its 2018 winter exploration and appraisal program there. And it appears the results are promising for the Houston-based company. ConocoPhillips originally intended to drill five wells on the Western North Slope comprising two appraisal …
With wind farm and oil and gas operators in the western half of the state paying close attention to the possibility of wildfires, Gov. Mary Fallin this week expanded a burn ban. Her order on Monday expanded the ban from 16 counties to 36 counties because of the extreme and extraordinary fire danger. The burn ban will …
While some readers are weary of the growing number of stories about Scott Pruitt and his running of the EPA, the government has taken notice of his operations. This week, the Government Accountability Office of the Environmental Protection Agency was out with a report stating that the EPA violated federal spending laws when it purchased …
Oil prices ended lower on Monday as the market gave back some of the gains made last week in trading. The price for one barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude, as set at the Cushing hub was $66.29 for May contracts. It was a drop of $1.10 per barrel in trading on the New York …
A federal judge in Colorado has cleared a subsidiary of Newfield Exploration, a company with heavy operations in Oklahoma’s STACK play. In a recent ruling, the judge said there was no evidence as claimed by two companies that Newfield Production Company convinced a competitor majority-owned by the Ute Tribe to stay out of bidding for …