June 2019 archive

Oil and the financing of radio in Oklahoma

Oil has a long history of helping finance and develop a lot of businesses in Oklahoma and one of those industries is “radio.” There is a rich history of oil and gas companies either acquiring radio stations in the state or carrying out nationwide advertising on radio networks. When he worked for the Oklahoma History …

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Phillips 66 deepwater port proposal gets support in Corpus Christi, Texas

  Plans by Phillips 66 to build a deep-water crude exporting port in the Gulf of Mexico are getting the support of the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas. “When (Phillips) 66 came and pitched us on their concept and their location and their idea, we were very keen to work with them,” Port CEO …

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All this for less than one acre of land

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation has had to go to federal court as it attempts to purchase a tiny bit of land for highway improvements in Pawnee County.  And a U.S. District judge in Tulsa has ruled the DOT must dot all the “Is” and cross all the “Ts” in order to do it. The …

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Six more counties added to FEMA disaster declaration

Governor Kevin Stitt announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved the state’s request for disaster assistance for six more Oklahoma counties impacted by flooding, tornadoes, severe storms and straight-line winds. The disaster assistance benefits individuals and business owners affected by severe storms that have occurred since May 7 in Alfalfa, Craig, Garfield, Kingfisher, …

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Permits to drill for June 20, 2019

Permits to drill filed on June 20, 2019. Blaine County EDGEMERE FARMS #2-25-36XHM, June 20 2019 25 15N 13W S2NENENE API: 01124226 Lat: 35.7532454880505, Long: -98.52675091907517 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC HH, DR, 22694 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN(12418), WOODFORD(13300) Caddo County CAPTAIN 6-31-11-12 #1HXL, June 20 2019 07 11N 12W NWNWNENE API: 01523312 Lat: 35.44906579285403, Long: -98.50406748875143 LYNX OKLAHOMA OPERATING LLC …

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Completion reports for June 20, 2019

Completion reports filed on June 20, 2019. OKLAHOMA COUNTY Gulf Exploration Llc Oswego(7545): Oil 8 Gas 480 Water 5 Flow 33 13N 3W Nichols Hills 3-5, April 05, 2019 DH, GAS, TD: 8960 ft Lat: 35.55520, Long: -97.52893 API: 35109220720002 Gulf Exploration Llc Simpson(8932): Gas 374 Water 42 Flow 33 13N 3W Why Not? 1-32er, April 01, 2019 DH, GAS, TD: 9105 ft Lat: 35.55603, …

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Meritage Midstream picks up Oklahoman for new executive position

Denver’s Meritage Midstream, a major midstream operator in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin announced the addition of two executives to the company’s leadership team. One left an Oklahoma midstream firm to take the new job. T. Jeffrey Layne was named chief operating office and Matthew DeNezza will be the company’s new chief financial officer. “After six …

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Chesapeake boasts of improvements in quarterly update

Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy is out with a new updated website in which the company boasts of delivering on its strategy for the first quarter of 2019. The website said the company’s strategy remains unchanged and is “resilient to commodity price volatility” based on financial discipline and profitable and efficient growth from captured resources.   …

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Phillips 66 to create deepwater crude export terminal off Gulf Coast

A week after forming join ventures to build pipelines linking shale fields in West Texas and North Dakota to the Cushing, Oklahoma oil hub and the US Gulf Coast, Phillips 66 is proposing a deepwater crude export terminal off the Gulf Coast. The company, with major operations in Bartlesville made the announcement this week that …

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A school district owns one of the largest privately-owned solar systems in Kansas

  One of the largest privately-owned solar systems in Kansas is in operation with a goal of producing electricity for the public schools in Maize, a town in Sedgwick County. And school officials in Norman, Oklahoma are interested in perhaps doing the same thing. It was earlier this month when the system went live with …

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