ConocoPhillips has a new general counsel, announcing the appointment of Baker Botts corporate transactional partner Kelly Brunetti Rose of Houston to the job. Prior to the appointment, Rose had represented ConocoPhillips and other major oil and gas companies in numerous billion-dollar mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and securities offering. Rose replaced Janet Langford Carrig who retired …
As he once campaigned for President against President Obama, Sen. John McCain refused to personally attack Obama the man. His policies yes. Obama himself? No. And after his weekend death, McCain was remembered fondly by Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe who had great environmental and political differences with the Arizona senator over the years. Still, …
Runoff races for Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner aren’t the only ones that state energy producers will watch closely on Tuesday. They know the state Labor Department can influence their industry. Cathy Costello and state Rep. Leslie Osborn are in the runoff for the Republican nomination and it has turned nasty in recent days with Osborn’s tv …
Bankruptcy and fraud in Texas has left some farmers and ranchers in North Dakota nearly helpless as more than three dozen gas wells sit idle on their land. At least 40 wells are not operational near the town of Buffalo, North Dakota. The wells were first drilled in 2006 by Spyglass Cedar Creek LP, a …
Another group named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by Energy Transfer Partners over the protests against its Dakota Access oil pipeline has been dismissed by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson in North Dakota dismissed the $1 billion lawsuit filed against Earth First, saying Dallas based Energy Transfer failed to …
Two races for Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner will be decided Tuesday by statewide voters—-one for the GOP nomination and the other for the Democrat nominee. Sitting Commissioner Bob Anthony is seeking a 6th consecutive term and hopes to beat former Senate President Pro Tempore Brian Bingman for the Republican nomination. In the June primary, Anthony finished …
Voters on Tuesday will decide if they want Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Dana Murphy to be the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor. She’s giving up her Commission seat in a bid to become the state’s second in command but faces a runoff with former GOP leader Matt Pinnell. In the June primary, Murphy ended up with …
Permits to drill for August 24, 2018 Alfalfa County CULLEN #2-30H, August 24 2018 30 25N 11W SWSESWSE API: 00323332 Lat: 36.60921071936891, Long: -98.42113229579124 AEXCO PETROLEUM INC HH, DR, 11400 ft, MISS’AN LM(6000) Blaine County LOIS #1613 3H-35, August 24 2018 02 15N 13W NENWNENW API: 01124074 Lat: 35.81157768282405, Long: -98.5551020001124 NEWFIELD EXPLORATION MID-CON INC HH, …
Completions reported on August 24, 2018 BECKHAM COUNTY Fourpoint Energy Llc Des Moines(12698): Oil 44 Gas 2545 Water 1666 Flow 6 11N 22W Ruth 6-11-22 1ha, October 22, 2017 HH, GAS, TD: 17890 ft Lat: 35.46410, Long: -99.57350 API: 35009219870000 ELLIS COUNTY Fourpoint Energy Llc Cleveland(8380): Oil 439 Gas 547 Water 554 Pump 29 20N 26W Schoenhals 20-20-26 2hb, November 03, 2017 HH, OIL, TD: 16349 …
Operators of a polymer plant in Louisiana have agreed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice to pay $365,500 in civil penalties for violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act. The Region 6 office of the EPA in Dallas announced the agreement was reached with the Certain Teed Lake Charles Polymer …
