Take time on this Memorial Day to pause and remember those who helped create and keep freedom in this country. Remember those who afforded you the opportunity to hold a family cookout, boat outing or picnic in the park. All it takes is a short remembrance of the true meaning of Memorial Day.
Environmentalists and others fighting the Trump administration’s plan to revive an Obama-era moratorium against U.S> government coal sales on public lands in the West lost their case before a Montana federal judge. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris, in a ruling on Friday said President Donald Trump’s administration had fixed its initial failure to consider the …
After laying off at least 400 workers at its Oklahoma City operations in April, Hertz has gone to bankruptcy court. Hertz Global Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy in Delaware on Friday after travel restrictions and the global economic collapsed caused by the coronavirus pandemic crushed demand for the company’s rental cars. The Chapter 11 …
** Emails show the Bureau of Land Management may have violated its own rules in extending royalty breaks to oil companies and continuing lease sales during the economic downturn. ** Ohio regulators rule that an offshore wind project in Lake Erie can move forward under a condition that turbines not run at night for eight months a year, which the developer …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford joined Democrat Sens. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire in calling for the government to investigate ongoing delays of the KC 46 aircraft. The new refueling tanker is based in Wichita, Kansas but some are also based at Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma. Lankford …
Protesters opposing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Canada say they’ve canceled demonstrations and events due to Covid-19, and have increasingly depended on phone blitzes and social media campaigns. But with work on big pipeline projects deemed essential, construction has continued through the pandemic, leaving activists to think about what on-the-ground actions they can take …
Oklahoma City has received a $4.6 million loan from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board to do repairs and improvements to prevent pollution of Lake Overholser and Lake Stanley Draper. The loan was approved at a recent meeting of the Water Resources Board, its second-ever virtual meeting due to the coronavirus pandemic. The loan to Oklahoma …
Of the few recently completion reports filed with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission two were sister wells producing more than 1,100 barrels of oil a day out of a single pad site in Dewey County. The wells were actually drilled in 2018 and finished in 2019 by Tapstone Energy LLC which just filed the completion reports …
Tulsa’s Unit Corporation became the latest bankruptcy victim of the coronavirus pandemic and the oil crisis, as the company announced it has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the federal bankruptcy court in Houston, Texas, citing debts of more than $1 billion. The company stated it filed the Chapter 11 reorganization, a move that will reduce …
While the nation’s number of active oil and gas rigs fell by 21 in the past week to only 318, Oklahoma’s count stayed unchanged at an even 12 rigs. Baker Hughes Co. reported the U.S. lost 21 oil rigs in the past week as the count tumbled to 237 while the number of gas …
