The Oklahoma House of Representatives will consider legislation to prevent telemarketers from replicating numbers and misrepresenting the origin of a phone call. Rep. Kyle Hilbert (R-Bristow) filed House Bill 3081 to prohibit callers from tampering with information displayed on caller IDs to disguise their identities. This practice is known as caller ID spoofing and is …
The Denver federal appeals court has upheld a lower court against the environmental group WildEarth Guardians in a fight over the government’s allocation of water in New Mexico’s Rio Grande River. In a recent ruling, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the lower court that said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers …
Even with nearly $33 billion in revenue, Schlumberger says it was a “flat year” with only 7% international revenue growth. The European company, with operations throughout Oklahoma and the U.S. reported fourth quarter revenue of $8.2 billion, a decline of 4% from a year ago. Full-year cash flow from operations was $5.4 billion while free …
Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin contends a Democrat supported measure to mandate a phase out of hydroflurocarbons is being considered without the consumer in mind. He sits on the House Energy and Commerce Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee that held a hearing last week on the legislation. Hydroflurocarbons are refrigerants used in air conditioners and refrigerators. …
** Environmental groups file suit claiming Wisconsin regulators discriminate against utility customers who generate their own power and send it back to the grid. ** U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa says EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler should be fired if new federal ethanol blending requirements aren’t upheld. ** Daybreak Power Inc., a developer of gigawatt-scale energy storage projects, announced that the Federal …
The number of active oil and gas rigs grew in the past week in Oklahoma and across the rest of the U.S. according to the latest rig report from Baker Hughes Co. Oklahoma’s count increased by one to reach 53, far below the 126 active rigs reported last year at this time. In the U.S. …
Chad Stephens’ temporary job as interim CEO of Oklahoma City-based Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. became permanent this past week. The company named him Chief Executive Officer effective Jan. 16, 2020. He had previously been the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Range Resources until his retirement in 2018. Stephens had joined Range Resources …
Completion reports filed on January 17, 2020. ATOKA COUNTY G & S Energy Inc Big Fork(8160): Gas 1866 Water 900 Flow Big Fork(8160): Gas 874 Water 486 Flow 20 2S 12E Cochran 1h-20, November 19, 2019 HH, GAS, TD: 11456 ft Lat: 34.37000, Long: -96.06362 API: 35005204560001 G & S Energy Inc Big Fork(9230): Gas 1176 Water 540 Flow Big Fork(9230): Gas 225 Water 130 Flow 21 2S 12E Bloomfield …
Permits to drill issued for January 17, 2020. Carter County SEAPORT #1-14-23XHW, January 17 2020 14 2S 3W SENENWNW API: 01926361 Lat: 34.38910905765564, Long: -97.48810371130489 CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC HH, DR, 19452 ft, WOODFORD(10315) Grady County BLAIN #1, January 17 2020 09 4N 7W W2W2NENE API: 05122169 Lat: 34.83960671955208, Long: -97.93504617320197 B & W OPERATING LLC SH, RC, …
Plans by two power companies to build a $2.2 billion coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas have gone up in smoke. No plant will be built. Sunflower Electric Power Corp. based in Hays announced it will allow its air permit for a proposed plant in Holcomb to expire in March. The project was first blocked …
