A new Water Resources Development Act reported to be agreed upon by negotiators in Washington includes funding for improvements to Oklahoma’s McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. POLITICO reported the measure is being teed up enabling the House to vote on it this week and advance it through the Senate as part of a year-end …
What has happened to Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry in the past 9 months due to the coronavirus pandemic is giving state government leaders a dose of reality. Those oil and gas drilling rigs in storage aren’t producing revenue for the state. State Treasurer Randy McDaniel announced Monday the latest gross receipts to the …
The city of Denton, Texas might revisit a move to require 20-foot setbacks around plugged gas wells. The Denton Record-Chronicle reported a city council candidate’s call for such an ordinance might prompt city leaders to consider it next month. Click here for the Denton Record-Chronicle story.
A Sunday morning storage tank explosion at a Corpus Christi, Texas petroleum facility owned by an Oklahoma based company left seven contractors injured–four critically. It happened at a facility run by Tulsa-based Magellan Midstream Partners where Mark Calhoun, the operations manager explained the blast occurred when a fire broke out near a crude oil …
