In making her announcement of being a candidate for State Labor Commissioner, Mustang Rep. Leslie Osborn told supporters the state has serious challenges. At the same time, she said the Labor Commissioner has an important role in “building a better and stronger Oklahoma by championing people, jobs and businesses.” The Republican legislator was a small …
A few weeks after we told you how some national reporters and others were speculating that EPA chief Scott Pruitt was using the office as a possible stepping stone to a higher office, there has been more such political speculation. It comes from the Tulsa World where the prospect is reported of Pruitt making a …
The downturn in the oil and gas industry has caught up Louisiana-based Knight Energy Holdings LLC. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week showing it has nearly $200 million in secured debt and another $10 million in unsecured debt. Knight Energy is an oil and gas tool rental company whose leaders say they have …
Houston-based Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. has turned the tables on a Pennsylvania man who filed suit claiming the gas driller had polluted residential water wells in Pennsylvania. Cabot, one of the largest natural gas drillers in Pennsylvania went to court this week and filed a $5 million lawsuit against Ray Kemble and his lawyers …
A change of heart by operators of the largest coal-fired power plant in the western U.S. Co-owners of the Colstrip Generating Station in southeastern Montana now say they will continue running the 2,100-megawatt plant for the foreseeable future. Last year, officials at Talen Energy based in Pennsylvania indicated that a new operator would be needed …
Oil futures finished higher on Wednesday after U.S. government data revealed a sharp decline in crude inventory, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in September rose 39 cents, or 0.8%, to settle at $49.56 a barrel. October Brent crude, the global benchmark, gained 56 cents, or 1.1%, …
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Northwest Oklahoma’s 6th annual Tri State Oil and Gas Convention is underway in Woodward. Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb will launch the convention Thursday morning with the opening keynote address beginning at 9:15. He’ll be followed by the annual Legislative Panel to be moderated by Adam Wilmoth, Energy Editor of the Oklahoman. The final speaker of …
A small independent oil and gas company headquartered in Purcell, Oklahoma is one of three companies that won bids to explore the world’s biggest oil reserves—-those in Venezuela. It has the energy world wondering how they did it. And maybe why. When word leaked recently that Horizontal Well Drillers LLC, whose chief executive officer is …
