A San Antonio, Texas company promises to have a new oil pipeline operational out of the Permian Basin by the third quarter of the year. The lack of pipelines in the Basin has been considered a holdup in some oil production in the prolific region of Texas and New Mexico. The vow comes from EPIC …
January 14, 2019 archive
Halliburton names new Western Hemisphere president
Halliburton Company, the firm founded decades ago in Duncan, Oklahoma has a new president of its Western Hemisphere operations. The company announced that Mark Richard, the current senior vice president of the Northern Region was promoted to succeed Jim Brown as president of the Western Hemisphere. The promotion will be effective Feb. 1, 2019. “Mark’s …
Boil order lifted in Pushmataha County
State regulators have lifted the boil order they had issued last week for residents who use water from Sardis Lake in southeast Oklahoma. The Department of Environmental Quality said the water from the lake in Pushmataha County is now safe for human consumption. The original boil order was issued because of “high turbidity in the …
Strong quake shakes northern Oklahoma
A strong earthquake rattled northern Oklahoma early Monday morning. The 3.6 magnitude earthquake struck around 2:20 a.m. in an area not far from Waukomis or about 17 miles southeast of Enid. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake was about 3 miles deep but there were no immediate reports of damage. But it is …
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