A $1 billion pipeline from Oklahoma’s Kingfisher County south to Louisiana is planned by Houston-based Cheniere Energy. The 200-mile Midship Pipeline will move natural gas to a south Louisiana liquefied natural gas terminal. There, the gas will be exported overseas. The gas will primarily come out of the STACK and SCOOP fields to the company’s …
The Oklahoma City-based Oil-Law Records Corporation has been sold to a Texas firm. Austin’s Drillinginfo has acquired the 62-year old Oklahoma company which provides permits to drill and completion reports for law firms and oil companies. The eleven employees of Oil-Law Records will keep their jobs and so will company CEO J. Brad McPherson. Drillinginfo …
Operators of the little Purcell drilling company that won a huge contract to drill for oil in Venezuela contend they can handle the operation and plan to begin moving rigs to the troubled company in the coming six to nine months. It’s what CNBC reports after spending weeks attempting to contact the owners of Horizontal …
Democrats cried “corporate welfare” but the Oklahoma House voted Thursday in favor of a measure to give an exemption to big trucks, trailers, cargo vehicles and even oil-field frac tanks from the State’s new automobile sales tax. The vote was 60 to 20 as HB 1074 was sent to the State Senate. Rep. Bobby Cleveland, …
A new government report has been released stating that the herbicide glyphosate does not cause cancer and Sen. Jim Inhofe says it was long overdue. “The Agricultural Health Study confirms what we already knew—there is no link between glyphosate exposure and cancer,” said the Senator after the study was published by the National Institute of …
Those Texas landowners who went to court a few years ago to fight what they called a land grab by the federal government in a dispute over the Red River border have reached a settlement in the case. A Federal judge has signed off on the settlement with the Bureau of Land Management after it …
A $300 million sale of its 50% share in the Glass Mountain Pipeline in Oklahoma has been announced by Tulsa-based NGL Energy Partners LP. The sale was to an affiliate of BlackRock Inc.’s Global Energy and Power Infrastructure Fund in partnership with Navigator Energy Services. The sale should be completed before Dec. 31, 2017. Glass …
Key Energy Services, the Houston firm that over the past few decades expanded through acquisitions of other companies in Oklahoma reported third quarter 2017 consolidated revenues of nearly $111 million. The report comes after the company emerged last December from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Revenues were $110.7 million but the company also reported a pre-tax loss …
Tulsa-based Williams Cos Inc. will be allowed to move ahead with a $2.65 billion Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline in Pennsylvania after the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday lifted its temporary stay of construction. In making the move, the court denied a request by environmental groups and an Order of Catholic nuns near Lancaster, Pennsylvania to stop the …
Stillwater City Manager Norman McNickle is writing publicly about what he perceives is a failure of the state’s agreement with Amazon to start collecting sales tax in the state. In a statement issued this week, McNickle said his city is still waiting “for that bump” promised by the Governor after reaching a “gentleman’s agreement” with …