Hongjin Tan, a 35 year old Chinese national and U.S. legal permanent resident, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to committing theft of trade secrets from his employer, a U.S. petroleum company, Phillips 66 laboratory in Bartlesville. Tan pleaded guilty to theft of a trade secret, unauthorized transmission of a trade secret, and unauthorized possession …
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality announced that the ChargeOK grant program has issued awards for $1,453,933 to install 55 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across Oklahoma. A second round of awards will be announced in the future. DEQ set aside the maximum allowed portion of its VW Settlement funds to support ChargeOK, Oklahoma’s EV …
WPX Energy President and Chief Operations Officer Clay M. Gaspar has been elected to the Tulsa company’s board of directors effectively immediately. Gaspar has held increasing levels of leadership with WPX since joining the company in 2014. He started as senior vice president of operations and resource development, was promoted to chief operating officer …
Helmerich & Payne, Inc. reported income of $41 million or $0.37 per diluted share from operating revenues of $649 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2019, compared to a net loss of $155 million, or $(1.42) per diluted share, on revenues of $688 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2019. But the …
The Tar Creek Trustees are seeking submissions of restoration project ideas from the public according to the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. Any individual or group can submit a restoration project idea which addresses natural resource injuries and/or cultural service losses within the Northeastern Oklahoma Mining Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Site (NOMNRDAR). Project …
While Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe and others on the Senate Armed Services Committee work on a new defense budget, one of their challenges continues to be PFAS chemical contamination on military bases across the nation. POLITICO’s Morning Energy Report said this week a new memo from the Defense Department ignores EPA guidance relating to the cleanup of …
The FBI has begun a corruption investigation into how Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration came to issue permits for construction on a multibillion-dollar pipeline project to carry highly volatile natural gas liquids across Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned. FBI agents have interviewed current or former state employees in recent weeks about the Mariner East …
Oklahoma’s STACK is still seeing more drilling and oil and gas production. But the honors of the state’s biggest producer reported this week is in the SCOOP. Houston’s Marathon Oil Co. had success in Oklahoma’s Garvin County with a well producing nearly 1,300 barrels of oil a day. Completion reports filed this week with the …
An Oklahoman who worked for U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe before landing at the Environmental Protection Agency finds himself in the spotlight as he battles the EPA’s Inspector General. POLITICO reported Ryan Jackson, a native Oklahoman who worked for Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) for more than a decade and a half, has maintained a relatively low …
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