Tuesday’s Wall Street trading brought the reality to some Oklahoma energy companies that what goes up also must come down, this after some amazing increases recorded on Monday.
West Texas crude for December contracts dropped 20 cents or less than one-half of a percent to $41.23 a barrel.
Benchmark Brent crude slipped 7 cents to finish at $43.75 on the ICE Futures Europe.
Natural gas managed a one cent increase up to $2.70 per MMBtu.
Still, some companies had resounding increases in their shares including Oklahoma City-based Gulfport Energy, the firm that filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy over the weekend. Its shares jumped 20% on Tuesday, going up about 3 cents to reach 16 cents a share.
Another Oklahoma City-based company, Mammoth Energy Services saw a nearly 13% gain following a 23-cent climb in its shares as they settled at $2.04.
Others were mixed bag as Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. had a 14 cent gain for a 3.75% increase to $3.87. Blueknight Energy Partners LP slipped 4 cents for a 2.50% decline to $1.60. Chesapeake Energy Corporation dropped 5 cents or 1.51% to $3.27.
Chevron (CVX) down 0.63 at 87.04 – change 0.72%
Concho Resources (CXO) up 1.07 at 56.23 – change 1.93%
ConocoPhillips (COP) up 0.77 at 38.85 – change 2.02%
Diamondback Energy (FANG) up 1.38 at 37.31 – change 3.84%
Energy Transfer LP (ET) up 0.19 at 5.63 – change 3.49%
Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) up 0.17 at 19.12 – change 0.89%
EOG Resources (EOG) up 0.32 at 45.67 – change 0.70%
ExxonMobil (XOM) up 0.51 at 38.67 – change 1.33%
Kinder Morgan (KMI) up 0.36 at 14.03 – change 2.63%
Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO) up 0.05 at 5.50 – change 0.91%
National Oilwell Varco (NOV) up 0.16 at 12.20 – change 1.32%
Occidental Petroleum (OXY) up 0.28 at 12.99 – change 2.28%
Parsley Energy (PE) up 0.19 at 12.08 – change 1.59%
Phillips 66 (PSX) up 1.72 at 64.34 – change 2.74%
Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) up 1.20 at 95.91 – change 1.26%
Valero (VLO) down 0.54 at 54.15 – change 0.99%
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American Electric Power (AEP) down 2.48 at 86.73 – change 2.78%