Environmentalists who say the Gulf of Mexico is their next front in the fight against oil and gas drilling made their point recently by protesting a federal auction of the oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. About 300 climate activists s…
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Government Jobs Increase in Oklahoma whiloe Energy Sector Sheds More Workers
New figures from the Oklahoma Department of Employment Security show the state’s jobless rate rose a tenth of a point, reaching 4.2 percent for February. The increase came as the nation’s jobless rate held steady at 4.9 percent. But the figures also sh…
OERB Starts Survey of Marginal Oil Producers hit by Low Prices
Low petroleum prices continue to pummel producers all across Oklahoma hard. Among the hardest hit are the small and marginal producers who don?t have very deep pockets when it comes to weathering the low-price storm. Many of those producers are seein…
OERB Starts Survey of Marginal Oil Producers hit by Low Prices
Low petroleum prices continue to pummel producers all across Oklahoma hard. Among the hardest hit are the small and marginal producers who don?t have very deep pockets when it comes to weathering the low-price storm. Many of those producers are seein…
EIA: Half of U.S. Lower 48 Production Comes From 2-Year-Old Wells
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported nearly half of the oil pumped in the lower 48 states last year flowed from wells that were drilled sometime after the start of 2014, showing the reach of short-cycle shale production and technological…
Kansas Snowfall Welcome in Fighting Massive Wildfire
Snowfall on Easter Sunday might have done what hundreds of firefighters couldn’t do in the past week and that was extinguish a wildfire that started in northern Oklahoma and burned into Kansas, scorching more than 400,000 acres of land.
A spokeswomanw…
Energy Department Supports $2.5 billion Wind Power Project in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee
Even as Oklahoma City billboards attack the wind industry and its tax credits in Oklahoma, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz says the Department of Energy will take part in the development of a $2.5 billion project to deliver wind-powered elect…
Promotions at Plains All American
Plains All American Pipeline, the Houston firm with big operations at the Cushing tank farm announced several officer promotions over the weekend.
Steve Falgoust, Dean Gore, Barrry Holtzman, Megan Prout, James Robert and Jim Tillis were each promoted …
Fitch Gives Stable Rating to Noble Despite Energy Firm’s $8 billion Debt
Noble Energy, the firm once founded in Oklahoma and headquartered in Ardmore gets a ‘stable’ Rating Outlook from Fitch Ratings as well as a “BBB-‘ first-time ratings to the company’s Long-term Issuer Default Rating and senior unsecured ratings.
The an…
Phillips 66 to release 1st Quarter Financial Results in Late April
We’ll know how good or bad the economic situation is for Phillips 66 later in April when the company will release its first-quarter financial reports. The executive management will release the results on Friday, April 29 and also hold a conference call…
