ONEOK, Inc. announced Monday plans for $130 million in an expansion of its Mid-Continent natural gas liquids gathering system to better serve Oklahoma’s wildly-growing STACK oil play. Backed by a long-term contract with a subsidiary of EnLink Midstream Partners, LP and EnLink Midsream LLC, the expansions will help handle expected volume growth in the play …
Exxon Mobil’s announced plans to move 1,600 of its XTO Energy subsidiary’s employees from Fort Worth to the Houston area. Reports indicate 1,200 employees will make the move in mid-2018 and another 400 will be transferred in 2020. Only about 350 XTO Energy workers will stay in Fort Worth. Workers got the news on Friday …
An open season for committed crude oil pipeline capacity from the Delaware Basin in Texas to Cushing, Oklahoma has been announced by a subsidiary of Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. The company said the Pipeline will originate at Conan Station in Loving County, Texas which is located between El Paso and Midland-Odessa. The line will …
New York based Hess Corporation announced Monday it has sold $600 million in assets in the Permian Basin to Occidental Petroleum Corporation. The sale was effective June 1 and proceeds will be used to fund the company’s strong growth opportunities. The assets included holdings in the Seminole Gas Processing plant in Texas, the West Bravo …
In a court case of the “little guy” against the corporate giant, the corporate giant, ConocoPhillips has lost its challenge of $11.7 million in damages ordered by a court. The Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio, Texas has upheld a lower court ruling that said a brother and sister were entitled to $11.7 million …
Supporters of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline have gone to Montana federal court contending President Trump’s decision in March to approve a permit for the project is not within the court’s jurisdiction. The supporters responded to legal action taken by environmental and tribal groups that are fighting the project which will stretch across Montana, South …
Tulsa chemical company owner Mat Brainerd’s had such an interest and devotion of the history of Oklahoma oilman Waite Phillips, he spent $1 million renovating his office to look just like the one Phillips had in Philtower in downtown Tulsa. As he told The Tulsa World, “Re-creating his office into an exact replica of what …
Administrator Scott Pruitt led a busy life as he settled into the top post at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to scheduling data released to E&E News late Thursday. During his initial five weeks in office, Oklahoma’s former attorney general met with governors and energy leaders but failed to hold discussions with environmental activists …
In what he called one last defense of President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, Sen. Jim Inhofe said it means an end to the era of President Obama’s damaging climate agenda. It was in his latest speech on the Senate Floor where he highlighted what he called the “importance of …
In a case Sen. Jim Inhofe described as an attempt by the Obama administration to “crucify” the fossil fuel industry, a federal judge has ordered a high-ranking Wyoming state official to be deposed in a fracking case. It’s the case of a Wyoming family, Jeff and Rhonda Locker, that contends fracking by Encana Corporation operations …