Wichita State University has partnered with a California company to develop commercial technology to protect the nation’s thousands of wind turbines from damaging lightning strikes. Remember lightning rods? They were put atop farm homes and barns but WSU’s agreement with Lightning Diversion Systems will focus on how to transfer electrical strikes from a tower …
Imagine losing $2 billion? It’s what Oklahoma City-based Gulfport Energy Corporation reported for 2019, attributing the loss to a large write-down. In an earnings report, the firm reported it lost $2.02 billion or $12.49 per share while total revenues were $1.35 billion for all of 2019. Gulfport wrote down its oil and natural gas assets …
Oklahoma will get more than $16 million in federal emergency money from the U.S. Department of Transportation because of flood damage over the past few years. It is part of $653 million in USDOT emergency funding to make road and bridge repairs. Oklahoma will get $7,047,846 to repair damage caused by storms and flooding from …
Oklahoma City-based Mammoth Energy Services reported losses in both the fourth quarter 2019 and for all of the year. Earnings for the company dropped in the fourth quarter of 2019 compared to the previous quarter and also to the fourth quarter of 2018. For the year, total revenue was nearly one-half what it was …
Permits to drill issued on February 27, 2020. Mcclain County WALNUT CREEK SWD #1, February 27 2020 06 7N 4W NWNESESE API: 08722106 Lat: 35.10524717372211, Long: -97.65484666437438 S & S STAR OPERATING LLC SH, DR, 7250 ft, VIRGILIAN(5300) Mcclain County WALNUT CREEK SWD #1, February 27 2020 06 7N 4W NWNESESE API: 08722106 Lat: 35.10524717372211, Long: -97.65484666437438 …
Completion reports filed on February 27, 2020. CANADIAN COUNTY Roan Resources Llc Mississippi Lime / Mississippian: Oil 543 Gas 4349 Water 1135 Flow 2 10N 6W Earl 2-11-10-6 3mxh, April 20, 2019 HH, OIL, TD: 19850 ft Lat: 35.37645, Long: -97.80666 API: 35017252920001 CARTER COUNTY Citation Oil & Gas Corporation Arbuckle(2461): 2 4S 3W Healdton Arbuckle Unit 24-1, November 07, 2019 SH, …
The Oklahoma House Utilities Committee has passed legislation to prevent telemarketers from replicating phone numbers and misrepresenting the origin of a phone call. House Bill 3081, authored by Rep. Kyle Hilbert (R-Bristow), would prohibit callers from tampering with information displayed on caller IDs to disguise their identities. This practice is known as “caller ID spoofing” …
The American Petroleum Institute is out with a study showing the devastating impact if Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were to get their wish of a total ban on fracking in the U.S. The study claims Oklahoma would lose 319,000 jobs but the biggest loss nationally would be an estimated 1.1 million jobs in …
The Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian tribes in Oklahoma have reached agreement with Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. to construct two solar farms in southern Oklahoma. Each farm will be 5-megawatt in size and should be operational by August of this year, helping bring electrical power to the utility’s 858,000 customers in the southern part of …
From fire-fighting foam used at Air Force bases in Oklahoma and across the U.S. to sticky notes to the shoes we wear….they involve PFAS chemicals and now have led to criminal investigations involving the EPA. Bloomberg Environment reports it’s the latest twist involving what are called “forever chemicals.” The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged the probes in …
