2020 archive

ConocoPhillips expands board of directors

ConocoPhillips announced Tuesday that its board of directors has elected David T. Seaton and Al Walker to serve as board members. Seaton served as chief executive officer of Fluor Corporation from 2011 to 2019, and as chairman from 2012 to 2019. He joined Fluor in 1985 and held numerous positions both in operations and sales …

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Chevron moves to cut workforce—offers buyouts

Chevron Corporation workers are being offered buyouts as the company attempts to reduce its workforce in light of sharply lower oil and gas prices. It’s what Reuters reports about the No. 2 U.S oil producer. Company sources told the news agency that the company decided to reduce staff after reviewing operations late last year as energy …

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OGE shareholders meeting set for May

The annual shareholders meeting of OGE Energy Corp. will be held May 21 in Oklahoma City. A proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission stated the meeting will be held at 10 a.m. on that Thursday in the Skirvin Hilton Hotel. “We continue to take advantage of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules that …

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Energy project sparked House Bill to transfer Historic Preservation Office

The delay of an energy project is apparently behind a  state house vote this week in support of a bill to remove the Oklahoma Historic Preservation Office from the control of the Oklahoma Historical Society and put it under the state Department of Commerce. Republican Rep. Scott Fetgatter of Okmulgee authored House Bill 1710 which …

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Two months with hardly any rain for Oklahoma Panhandle

It’s hard to imagine going more than two months with only a few drops of rain but that’s the situation in the western part of Oklahoma’s Panhandle. State Climatologist Gary McManus reported this week the heaviest rainfalls in the month of February were in southeastern Oklahoma. Amounts ranged from four to six inches with the …

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OK House okays bill to allow bonds for repair of aging dams

A bill authorizing the issue of bonds to improve and repair some of the state’s high-risk flood-control dams passed the House on Monday with a vote of 93-1. House Bill 3298 by state Rep. Carl Newton (R-Cherokee) authorizes the Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority (OCIA) to acquire property and invest capital to update dams throughout Oklahoma. …

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Permits to drill for March 2, 2020

Permits to drill for March 2, 2020. Canadian County JASON JR. 1505 #1-32MH, March 02 2020 06 14N 5W NWNENWNE API: 01725609 Lat: 35.7252394401579, Long: -97.76858734386806 RED BLUFF RESOURCES OPERATING LLC HH, DR, 12100 ft, MISSISSIPPIAN (LESS CHESTER)(7300) Ellis County WESTON-O #36-25 2H, March 02 2020 36 18N 23W SWSWNESE API: 04523831 Lat: 35.98863446482482, Long: -99.59965518043022 VALPOINT …

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Completion reports for March 2, 2020

Completion reports filed on March 2, 2020. CANADIAN COUNTY Red Bluff Resources Operating Llc Mississippian: Oil 175 Gas 1412 Water 1073 Pump 21 14N 5W Bromlow 1405 7-21mh, October 27, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 13292 ft Lat: 35.66930, Long: -97.73540 API: 35017255050000 CARTER COUNTY Citation Oil & Gas Corporation Deese(2951): 7 1S 3W Franklin Unit (Ham “a”) 9-1, August 12, 2019 SH, …

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Ten years in the making—a poultry pollution lawsuit decision

The Tulsa World reports that a federal judge is about ready to hand down a ruling in the state’s lawsuit against poultry producers accused of pollution the Illinois River in eastern Oklahoma. But it’s taken the judge ten years to come up with whatever decision he will make. Ten years after final arguments in a …

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New Mexico’s Chaco National Park remains center of drilling talk

   U.S. land managers on Friday made public a list of possible alternatives for managing development in one of the nation’s oldest oil and gas basins, but environmentalists and others say the options fail to take into account the cumulative costs of increased drilling and threats to Native American cultural sites in northwestern New Mexico. …

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