Whether you’re pumping or drilling for oil and gas in northwestern Oklahoma, cutting timber in the southeast or mining coal in the east, it’s hot and dangerous weather. Not so much because of the high temperatures but the effect of high humidity with those temperatures. As State Climatologist Gary McManus with the Oklahoma Mesonet pointed …
Oklahoma House Speaker Jeff Hickman has yet to announce the list of interim study requests that could be approved on such topics as oil and gas drilling restrictions, and ways to handle wastewater disposal in the state. “Speaker Hickman is expected to announce those studies that are approved by July 8,” according to OK Energy …
OG and E is warning about another scam, one in which a man posed as a utility worker visiting the homes of customers to collect past due bill payments. “The company wants its customers to know it does not send representatives out to customers’ homes to collect payments,” said Kathleen O’Shea, a spokeswoman for OG&E. …
In an effort to transform itself through restructuring, Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corp. announced on Wednesday that it will sell all remaining non-core assets in the Midland Basin of west Texas for a combined $858 million in two separate transactions. The latest non-core divestitures bump up the company’s recent sales amounting for nearly $2.1 billion, according to the company’s …
Water and earthquakes will be the topic of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s General counsels’ Forum luncheon on Friday in Oklahoma City. Dr. Kyle E. Murray, a hydrogeologist for the Oklahoma Geological Survey and Adjunct Faculty for the ConocoPhillips School of Geology and geophysics at the University of Oklahoma will be the speaker. As the …
A new weekly record for ethanol production is reported by the Energy Information Administration. Ethanol produced increased 7,000 barrels a day from last week, hitting 1.013 million barrels a day or 42.55 million gallons daily. The four week average stood at 981,000 barrels a day for an annualized rate of 15.04 billion gallons. As of …
An appeal by Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources Inc. to a 2013 ruling by the U.S. Department of Interior forcing the energy giant to pay nearly $2 million more in natural gas royalties is being heard by the D.C. Circuit in Washington. This week, the Interior Department argued the company waited too long to lodge a …
Some say the proposed contentious merger between Tulsa’s Williams Companies and Energy Transfer Equity of Dallas is more like a shotgun marriage. Williams wants to force the deal by suing ETE while ETE wants to dump Williams on the altar. Now days before a lawsuit by Williams Companies against Energy Transfer Equity goes to trial …
Oklahoma is considered among a handful of states with the greatest cancer risk to oil and gas workers from methane and air toxics emissions in the industry, according to a new report from the Clean Air Task Force. The study found that areas with the greatest health risk are generally located in states with the …
As the old Frank Sinatra song goes, “Nice work if you can get it, you can get it if you try.” It’s what some state legislators are saying about the $250,000 job just landed by former Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Patrice Douglas. She was named the new Chief Executive Officer of the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment …