While state legislators grapple with a plan to fix Oklahoma’s state government budget hole of $215 million, some want to increase the gross production tax on oil and gas. And that’s an issue that prompts Chad Warmington, President of the Oklahoma Oil and Gas Association to declare it’s nothing but political talking points on the …
The latest weekly oil and gas rig count yielded some surprises along with declines for Oklahoma and the nation, according to Houston-based Baker Hughes Company. The nation’s rig count dropped by one to reach 935, down from a year ago when it had 511 working rigs. Oklahoma’s count fell by three in the past week …
Crude oil futures ended slightly higher on Friday, as producers at an OPEC meeting revealed record compliance with their production curb agreement, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. November West Texas Intermediate crude rose 11 cents, or 0.2%, to settle at $50.66 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. For the week, the November contract gained 0.4%, …
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The wrongful death lawsuit against XTO and Exxon Mobil in Oklahoma City federal court was settled on Thursday. But terms of the agreement in the suit brought by the widow of an oilfield worker who died while tank gauging near Ardmore in 2014 were not disclosed. “The parties have reached a confidential settlement without XTO …
Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm isn’t afraid to say it…he thinks the government’s optimistic predictions of more than 1 million new barrels of oil a day in the U.S. production is “distorting” global crude prices. It’s what he told Bloomberg News, saying the prediction this week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration is “just flat …
Kansans who rely on self-generated electricity from wind and solar energy aren’t happy over a Kansas Corporation Commission ruling this week. The KCC issued an order detailing how utility companies can charge customers for what is known in the industry as “distributed generation,” meaning those customers who self-produce energy in small amounts according to a …
A Texas appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling that said National Oilwell Varco and an independent trucking company were not responsible for a fatal car crash that occurred when the vehicle slid on oil mud covering a highway. Varco had employed Big Red trucking to haul mud from a drill site near Flatonia, …
Energy and some non-profit groups have filed suit in Muskogee federal court against the federal government for failing to remove the American burying beetle from the endangered species list. The lawsuit filed Thursday was in the U.S. Eastern District Court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service against the Department of the Interior, Interior Secretary …
