An initial incident report by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and its probe of the deadly gas-rig explosion near Quinton indicated no cause as of yet. Released under the Oklahoma Open Records law, the OCC report stated the well will be plugged as the investigation continues. “Kill well with heavy drilling mud,” recommended investigator Curtis Hope …
Oklahoma remains in the top ten for the cheapest gasoline in the country, but not by much. The state’s new weekly average of $2.35 a gallon was 3 cents higher than a week ago and ranks Oklahoma 9th cheapest in the U.S. according to AAA Oklahoma. The average compares to a national average of $2.54, …
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced the two winners of the specialty tag voting. The public chose the American Bison grazing in an Oklahoma prairie and the Oklahoma sunset over a field of flowers. The specialty plates will be available for purchase later this year. Voting began on January 8 and ran until January 19. Over …
A slight improvement in Oklahoma’s unemployment rate for December 2017 was reported Tuesday by the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. At the same time, they also reflected a slight drop in employment in Oklahoma’s energy sector. The seasonally adjusted rate declined 0.1 percentage point to 4.1 percent in December while the U.S. jobless rate held steady …
Northwest Oklahoma continues to be without significant moisture of any kind and according to the Oklahoma Mesonet, reached the 105th straight day without recorded precipitation. State Climatologist Gary McManus is keeping the records and in Wednesday’s Mesonet report, indicated “western OK was left high and dry and dusty” following weekend storms that produced rain for …
Oklahoma’s wind industry is stepping up to the plate in the growing debate of raising taxes to fix the state’s government budget crisis. It has announced support of a plan to increase tax revenues from wind-generated electricity to $50 million. “As in year’s past, the Oklahoma wind industry againn recognizes the State’s recurring revenue problem …
Those who attended the 2018 Oklahoma Energy Summit held this week at the State Capitol were told by one economist that the state’s energy tax rates are above average—-not less than some politicians have claimed in the debates over raising gross production taxes. It might have been something that Democratic lawmakers and Step Up Oklahoma …
The bodies of five missing workers at the site of a gas drilling rig explosion Monday morning in southeast Oklahoma were recovered on Tuesday and their names were released. Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris identified the five as: Josh Ray, 35, of Ft. Worth, Texas; Matt Smith, 29, of McAlester,Oklahoma; Cody Risk, 26, of Wellington, …
