A lawsuit filed over the 2014 death of an oilfield worker near Ardmore went to trial this week in Oklahoma City federal court. It was March 20, 2014 when David C. Simpson, 57 died as he was checking the levels in an oil tank battery owned and operated by Exxon Mobil Corporation and XTO Energy Inc. …
Domestic crude oil prices settled flat but slightly higher on Monday after posting a 5% gain last week, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, October West Texas Intermediate crude tacked on 2 cents, or less than 0.5%, to settle at $49.91 a barrel. The October contract expires at Wednesday’s settlement. November …
CARTER COUNTY Xto Energy Inc Hewitt: Oil 28 Water 163 Pump 22 4S 2W Hewitt Unit (Hewitt Unit 2304) 22-3004, August 14, 2017 SH, OIL, TD: 2805 ft Lat: 34.19568, Long: -97.39371 API: 35019230180002 DEWEY COUNTY Continental Resources Inc Woodford / Mississippian(less Chester): Oil 70 Gas 4393 Water 2596 Flow 20 16N 14W Arleta K 1-20-29xh, August 07, 2017 HH, GAS, TD: 22351 ft …
Blaine County DECELL 1411 #1-34MH, September 18 2017 34 14N 11W SWNWNWNW API: 01123859 Lat: 35.65177510623287, Long: -98.36553343659334 MARATHON OIL COMPANY HH, DR, 17843 ft, MISSISSIPPI LIME(11471) Kingfisher County ROADRUNNER 6_7-16N-7W #1HX, September 18 2017 32 17N 7W SWSWSWSW API: 07325780 Lat: 35.899173589294016, Long: -97.9781030920463 DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION CO LP HH, DR, 18063 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(7932), WOODFORD(8456) …
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt got his first-hand look over the weekend at the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas. He toured the San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund site on Friday and got a briefing from on-the-ground EPA response personnel. While he toured the site, an EPA dive team carried out …
Tulsa U.S. District Court Judge James Payne handed a setback this month to the Pawnee Nation in an oil and gas development fight with the Interior Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He ruled against many of the arguments the tribe had made against BIA approved oil and gas developments it contended resulted in …
In recent days we’ve heard how Continental Resources founder Harold Hamm was excited about the future of North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation and how some experts felt the play could equal that of Texas’ Permian Basin. Now comes a report that North Dakota’s oil production has stabilized after two years of decline. The State’s Department …
Amidst a fight against a proposed giant $320 million Tyson food chicken production and slaughtering hub in northeast Kansas were cries of endangering people, the soil and water with industrial wastes. The colorful protest held recently in Leavenworth County featured signs that declared “No Tyson! No friggin’ chickens! No kidding!” It raised memories of the …
A Denver federal appeals court ruling has caused the Trump administration to reconsider how it approaches its review of greenhouse gas emissions in dealing with coal leases. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Bureau of Land Management had not adequately considered the emissions from four large coal leases in Wyoming’s Powder …
When Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and others on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee meet Wednesday, it’ll be for a confirmation hearing for the likely next general counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency. Matt Leopold fits the mold of Scott Pruitt, the EPA Administrator who sued the Obama administration over its Clean Power …
