Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy is one of those firms reporting its Eagle Ford shale operations in South Texas are back to levels before Hurricane Harvey hit the region. Devon Energy reported its production is at pre-storm levels in the play which was 63,000 boe/day in the second quarter. The total included 36,000 b/d of crude …
Oklahoma Corporation Commission Chairwoman Dana Murphy will be part of a panel at a joint conference this week of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The conference will be held Friday at Oklahoma City’s Petroleum club and the commissioner will be part of a 1:30 p.m. panel. …
A lawsuit filed over the 2014 death of an oilfield worker near Ardmore went to trial this week in Oklahoma City federal court. It was March 20, 2014 when David C. Simpson, 57 died as he was checking the levels in an oil tank battery owned and operated by Exxon Mobil Corporation and XTO Energy Inc. …
Tulsa U.S. District Court Judge James Payne handed a setback this month to the Pawnee Nation in an oil and gas development fight with the Interior Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He ruled against many of the arguments the tribe had made against BIA approved oil and gas developments it contended resulted in …
Amidst a fight against a proposed giant $320 million Tyson food chicken production and slaughtering hub in northeast Kansas were cries of endangering people, the soil and water with industrial wastes. The colorful protest held recently in Leavenworth County featured signs that declared “No Tyson! No friggin’ chickens! No kidding!” It raised memories of the …
A Denver federal appeals court ruling has caused the Trump administration to reconsider how it approaches its review of greenhouse gas emissions in dealing with coal leases. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Bureau of Land Management had not adequately considered the emissions from four large coal leases in Wyoming’s Powder …
With Oklahoma’s latest rig count showing the oil and gas industry continues to remain strong, new employment figures are showing the same indication. A report from the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission showed the industry, classified under Mining, showed another 500 jobs were added in August. The July estimate had also been revised down by 300 …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says his agency will reconsider key parts of the Obama administration rule covering the handling of coal ash. It comes after an industry trade group filed suit asking the agency to take another look at the rule which considers coal ash, or as the EPA calls it Coal Combustion Residuals, to …
A push is underway to get the government to re-evaluate estimates of just how much oil could potentially be in North Dakota. Continental Resources chairman and founder Harold Hamm thinks the resources could match what is in the Permian Basin of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico. He has said for years the government has …
Lawsuits are mounting against the Army Corps of Engineers and the government over the flooding in Houston. A week after Hurricane Harvey hit, some residents filed a class-action lawsuit blaming governmental mismanagement of the two dams on the west side of Houston. Water was released from the Addicks and Barker reservoirs and the massive floodwaters …