It was cold enough this week in Oklahoma that AAA Oklahoma was kept busy with more than 1,200 calls—-most for dead car batteries. That’s since early Wednesday when temperatures dropped below freezing and undoubtedly the number grew as temperatures dropped into the teens and approached single digits in some places with the approach of the …
In a decision that won’t affect Oklahoma, the Trump administration plans to announce a two-year delay in implementing the 2016 Obama-era rule meant to curb methane emissions from natural gas drilling on public lands. However, Oklahoma firms carrying out exploration on public lands in other states could be affected. The Bureau of Land Management, in …
Despite government assurances, residents of northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas continue to be concerned about a planned biosecurity drill to be held next year by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. As OK Energy Today reported in November, the department plans to release inert chemical and biological simulant materials at the former Chilocco Indian School campus …
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Susan Bodine to head the enforcement arm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She will be the third high-level official after Administrator Scott Pruitt. She is a former chief counsel to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and was the committee’s top attorney in January 2015. With the confirmation, …
November 30 through December 6, 2017. COUNTY Well name OPERATOR SCTN TWN RNG SPOT Completion Date Oil Gas Water Scan Date API Document Alfalfa LOY PUFFINBARGER 29-28-9 1H CHESAPEAKE OPERATING 29 28N 9W NE NW NE NE Nov-16-2017 Nov-30-2017 00322280 500620030 Alfalfa SMITH FARMS 13-29-9 1H CHESAPEAKE OPERATING 24 29N 9W N2 N2 NW …
Crude oil prices were up more than 1 percent in Thursday’s trading in New York and overseas while natural gas prices took a dive. West Texas Intermediate crude rose 73-cents a barrel in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, finishing the day at $56,69 per barrel, meaning an increase of 1.30%. In London, Brent …
No injuries were reported Thursday in an oil well blowout in the far south Texas suburb of Missouri City. It happened Wednesday night as an uncontrollable release of oil was reported in a well in the vicinity of Texas Parkway and the Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road in the Houston metro area according to KPRC TV …
Ever since a fiery home explosion killed two men last April near Denver, Colorado, the state has experienced a dozen other explosions in the oil and gas industry according to a review carried out by the Denver Post. The newspaper indicated no enforcement action of any kind against Anadarko Petroleum has occurred in the wake …
The fight against an expansion of wastewater injection wells in the Flint Hills of Kansas is being led by a 56-year old woman who once worked 20 years as a writer and editor for the Kansas City Star. She is Cindy Hoedel who moved from Kansas City in 2016 to the small Morris County town …
A natural gas pipeline explosion early Wednesday morning in southeast New Mexico remains under investigation. No injuries were reported as the blast happened in a sparsely populated rural area south of Carlsbad. It happened on a line that transfers gas from wells to a treatment facility. Rick Rainey of enterprise Products Partners L.P. in …
