After Austin, Texas beat Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of the new Tesla truck factory, Tesla didn’t wait long to begin work on the new massive plant. Work started three weeks ago on the $1.1 billion vehicle assembly plant that could become Tesla’s largest ever. The California-based company has only one other plant in …
Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy Corp. has been fined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration over a deadly drilling rig explosion that happened in January in Texas. Two other oil production companies were fined along with Chesapeake Energy for a total of $387,273 over the Jan. 29 explosion that killed three workers. The …
After completing over $500 million worth of asset sales since its spin off from Linn Energy, Riviera Resources Inc. is now looking to exit the upstream space altogether and focus on Oklahoma assets. In announcing its second quarter results, the Houston-based oil and gas company indicated it will continue selling its remaining upstream assets …
Congress gets a big thank you from some biofuels supporters in the Midwest. As the Oklahoma Farm Report indicated this week, the thank you came from the group called Growth Energy. Click here for the story.
A recently-completed aerospace study over the Permian Basin in southeast New Mexico will help state oil and gas regulators put more pressure on producers to ease the amount of methane emissions. Some of the companies covered in the study were Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy and XTO Energy. Permian Basin oil and gas regulators and …
An oil and gas operator in the Permian Basin was fined $176,000 by the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division (OCD) for violating its permit by combining oil and gas from separate wells for storage without state approval. Matador Production was served a notice of violation on Monday for the offense the state reported took …
After failing to win a new Tesla Gigafactory, the state of Oklahoma plans to make a new program aimed at targeting the automotive industry. The Oklahoma Commerce Department has launched the Oklahoma Automotive Accelerator Program with hopes of locating automotive companies in the state. The program comes after Tulsa — and by extension the state …
Wichita, Kansas has become the new home to one of the country’s largest publicly-traded drone manufacturers, not the kind that drops enemy-targeting bombs but the smaller kind. AgEagle Aereial Systems, a company that began in a town of less than 2,500 residents in the eastern Kansas city of Neodesha announced it is moving …
