North Dakota regulators say oil production in December was down about 3% from November. The Department of Mineral Resources says the state produced an average of 1.47 million barrels of oil daily in December. That’s down from 1.51 million barrels from the prior month. North Dakota also produced about 94.8 billion cubic feet of …
Two years after leaks led federal regulators to shutter a pair of liquefied natural gas storage tanks at Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Sabine Pass export terminal in Louisiana, the company has met fewer than half the conditions for reopening. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) set 16 conditions for reopening the two giant …
A US jury has awarded $265 million to a Missouri farmer who blamed herbicide from chemical giants Bayer AG and BASF for destroying his peach orchards, in a case set to bolster 140 other lawsuits. Jurors in federal court in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, made the ruling on Saturday after peach farmer Bill Bader claimed the …
New Mexico state House members don’t support development of what are called community solar projects and recently rejected such a bill. By a vote of 36-28, the New Mexico House came out against expansion of access to solar energy in the state, according to a the New Mexico Political Report. Community solar projects, also referred …
Halliburton Company announced that its board of directors has declared a 2020 first quarter dividend of eighteen cents ($0.18) a share on the Company’s common stock payable on March 25, 2020, to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 4, 2020. The Company’s annual meeting of shareholders will take place on May …
** Great River Energy says decisions on the future of North Dakota’s largest coal plant will be made later this year. A municipal utility in southeastern Minnesota prepares to demolish a former coal plant that shut down in 2016. ** A Navajo company agrees to waive its sovereign immunity in Wyoming, which allows state regulators to oversee two mines it recently acquired. ** The shutdown …
Denver’s Extraction Oil and Gas Inc. announced the layoff of 20% of its workforce while the oil and gas industry suffers a slowdown. The 20% equates to about 60 workers from the company’s downtown headquarters and field operations in the D-J Basin. “We reorganized our workforce into a more streamlined structure that better matches …
Rig counts held steady in Oklahoma and across the U.S. over the past week. Figures from Baker Hughes Co. showed Oklahoma continued with 50 active rigs, a far cry from the 119 active rigs reported a year ago. Across the U.S. the count remained at 790, still 261 below the 1,051 rigs reported last year …
Insurance companies with business investments in oil and gas are being targeted by county commissioners in Boulder, Colorado, a city known for its environmental and progressive political activism. If they don’t make the check list, they’ll be eliminated from county business. Boulder County proclaimed it plans to screen insurance companies it does business with to …
Members of Oklahoma’s Environmental Quality Board want to hear from the public about any number of things related to the state’s environment. They’re planning to hold a public forum on Feb. 21 following a regular business meeting at the DEQ’s headquarters in downtown Oklahoma City. The exact start time of the public forum isn’t known …
