A day after announcing its bankruptcy filing, Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy received a delisting warning from being traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The NYSE notified the company on Monday that it intended to being proceedings to delist the company’s common stock and to suspend trading following Chesapeake’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. The …
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“First day relief” approved in Chesapeake Energy’s bankruptcy
Chesapeake Energy Corporation announced that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas has approved the Company’s motions seeking a variety of “first-day” relief, including authority to pay owner royalties, employee wages and benefits, and certain vendors and suppliers in the ordinary course for goods and services provided. Chesapeake intends to use the …
New Federal Class Action Lawsuit Involves Cushing and Failed WTI Investment Strategy
Cushing, Oklahoma may be the self-proclaimed Pipeline Crossroads of the World but it’s now the epicenter of a contentious federal securities class action complex litigation matter. A federal lawsuit was filed last week in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of investors of the United …
OK House Releases List of 2020 Interim Studies Proposals
The Oklahoma State House of Representatives received 88 interim studies proposals before the June 26, 2020 deadline. As expected, several requests covered the COVID-19 pandemic and a dozen relate directly to the state’s energy industry. Here’s the complete list of Oklahoma House interim studies requests for 2020: 20-001 Delisting and Assignment of Benefits (Rep. …
Hamm Purchases Nearly 4.8 Million Shares of Continental Common Stock
Harold Hamm, Founder and Executive Chairman of Continental Resources, Inc., purchased 4,736,264 shares of the energy company’s common stock on the open market from June 22, 2020 to June 25, 2020 at market prices, according to a Continental Resources press release issued Monday. Hamm’s total holdings amount to 289,659,385 shares, or approximately 79.3% of the Company’s total common …
Completion reports for June 29, 2020
Completion reports filed on June 29, 2020. BEAVER COUNTY Sheridan Production Company Llc 4 1N 22E Naylor 1-4, March 21, 2020 SH, PLUG, TD: 8600 ft Lat: 36.58147, Long: -100.70154 API: 35007239650003 Sheridan Production Company Llc 9 4N 28E Louretta 1-9, March 23, 2020 SH, PLUG, TD: 7000 ft Lat: 36.82310, Long: -100.05233 API: 35007234400001 Sheridan Production Company Llc …
Permits to drill for June 29, 2020
Permits to drill issued on June 29, 2020. Grady County EVERDEEN 0606 #1-22MH, July 01 2019 22 6N 6W SESWSWSE API: 05124665 Lat: 34.97203339040239, Long: -97.81888390204642 MARATHON OIL COMPANY HH, AM, 19345 ft, CANEY(14134)
Crude prices increased in Monday’s trading
Oil futures were up in Monday’s trading and analysts credited improved energy demand, even as the world pandemic from COVID-19 has grown. West Texas Intermediate crude jumped 3.14% or $1.21 a barrel, ending Monday’s trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange at $39.70. The Brent benchmark on the ICE Futures in London rose 66 …
Voters to decide Corporation Commission primary election
Republican Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett faces a challenge in Tuesday’s primary election as he attempts to win re-election. First elected to the Commission in November of 2014, he took his oath of office in January 2015. Hiett is being challenged by Harold Spradling, who is 85 and from Cherokee and previously ran unsuccessfully …
Man gets 30 years for shooting at Norman wind manufacturing office
A judge has sentenced a man to 30 years in prison for a 2018 shooting that happened at the Bergey Windpower plant in Norman, Oklahoma. As The Oklahoman reported this week, a woman who nearly lost an arm in the shooting testified during the sentencing of William Ray Adams. Colette Wind walked to the …




