As we head into the Christmas weekend, drivers are finding Oklahoma gasoline prices are still the lowest in the country. The state’s $2.02 average is tied with Arkansas for having the cheapest gasoline, according to this week’s release from AAA Oklahoma. “Our Oklahoma average today of $2.02 per gallon for self-serve regular is 17 cents …
The same week that Oklahoma regulators announced new earthquake rules stemming from growing fracking operations in the state’s two big oil plays, the STACK and the SCOOP, central Oklahoma experienced a 3.2 magnitude quake Thursday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the earthquake at 8:21 a.m. with an epicenter about 4 miles east-northeast of …
In fighting a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and attorneys general from other states, the EPA this week took time to poke Pruitt’s nomination to be the new EPA director and also blast the other states for requesting a delay in their suit. The states asked the federal courts in Washington, D.C. …
OG&E paid more than $7.5 million in energy-saving incentives so far during 2016, according to a company press release issued Wednesday. That figure reflects 750 projects among large commercial and industrial facilities, schools and government buildings and small businesses. The combined energy savings was more than 80 million kWh. Cash-strapped secondary schools in Oklahoma have received …
To read what former Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush says of Scott Pruitt picked to head the EPA in a Donald Trump administration gives a reader no doubt about what he thinks Pruitt. “I cannot think of a person more suited to lead the Environmental Protection Agency than Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt,” said Bush writing …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says it is time for change at the Environmental Protection Agency and the call for change is not an attack on the environment but a conscious decision to move away from the unlawful means used by the Obama administration to implement policies rejected by Congress and the American people. Writing …
Oklahoma City-based SandRidge Energy has been hit with a $1.4 million fine by the Securities and Exchange Commission for retaliating against a whistleblower and forcing hundreds of laid-off workers to sign confidentiality agreements. The SEC announced the action this week, explaining that SandRidge violated SEC laws beginning in the summer of 2011 when it forced …
The significance of this week’s new earthquake rules announced by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission is not lost on Chad Warmington, head of the Oklahoma Oil and Gas Association. For the first time, state regulators are linking earthquakes to fracking, not wastewater injection wells. Consider it a preventive step by the Commission as it attempts to …
One oil and gas group in Oklahoma said its member companies are ready to immediately implement the new earthquake rules announced Tuesday by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The rules were prompted by concerns that hydraulic fracturing operations in the highly popular STACK and SCOOP oil plays in the state would trigger an increase in …
As Oklahoma’s two popular and fast-growing oil plays, the STACK and the SCOOP generate high interest in the oil and gas industry, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission announced Tuesday new seismicity rules that will apply to the region…..rules aimed at preventing a sudden growth in earthquakes. And this time, state regulators are linking possible earthquake activity …