The state of Texas has scrapped a nearly six-year old plan to protect a small lizard from growing oil and gas activity in the western part of the state. The dunes sage brush lizard thrives in the Permian Basin, the largest oil producing area in the U.S. In 2012, the state jumped ahead of a …
While oil has been flowing through the southern leg of the Keystone oil pipeline in Oklahoma and Texas for a few years, attempts to win approval of the pipeline from Canada to Nebraska hit another recent roadblock. A federal judge in Montana has ordered federal officials to review documents after environmentalists sued and accused President …
Whether Democratic former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson will get the support of the state’s oil and gas industry in his run for governor remains to be seen. Especially in light of his stance for higher gross production taxes on the industry. As The Oklahoman reported in Sunday’s edition, Edmondson wants to raise the gross …
The Sierra Club is celebrating a victory after a federal judge ordered the suspension of construction on a crude oil pipeline by Energy Transfer Partners through a swamp in Louisiana’s Cajun country. The order against the Bayou Bridge line was issued by U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick after the Sierra Club sued the Army Corps …
Natural disasters are nothing new in Oklahoma, a state known for its tornadoes. So perhaps it only made sense for Gov. Mary Fallin to lead the discussion on disaster response in a meeting of the Council of Governors with the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security at the Pentagon. It happened Friday at a meeting of …
This week’s ice and rain have prompted a change in the state’s burn ban. Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb announced the ban is no longer 52 counties but 16 in the western part of the state where very little moisture was received. While southeastern Oklahoma got as much as 9 inches of rainfall, the Panhandle and …
Tulsa-based SemGroup Corporation announced it has sold its SemLogistics business unit in the United Kingdom to Valero. The UK operation was a petroleum storage facility and the purchaser is Valero Logistics UK Ltd, a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation. SemGroup did not reveal the sales price but under the deal, potential earnout payments will be …
While Oklahoma’s oil and gas rig count slipped in the past week, the national count added to hit 978. Figures from Baker Hughes Co. and the Independent Oil and Gas Service show an additional 3 rigs nationwide. One more oil rig was added to hit 799 in theU.S. while two more gas rigs were put …
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter lost a bid to get a lawsuit over his sealing of an audit of a Tar Creek Superfund site trust thrown out of court. Instead, Oklahoma County District Court Judge Patricia Parrish ruled the lawsuit filed by the Washington, D.C.-based Campaign for Accountability can continue. The suit was filed because …
Oklahoma City-based Chaparral Energy is out with an operations update and including what it anticipates for 2018. The company said its STACK production grew by 38 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to a year earlier. Its year-end 2017 proved reserves were increased to 76.3 million barrels of oil equivalent which represented a …