Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners meet Tuesday afternoon and will get a briefing on public information requests made of the agency. Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony made the request for the agenda item which pertains to Open Records requests that might be pending with the Commission. He asked for a report on the number of requests for …
June 2023 archive
Cleanup recovers 1,125 barrels of oil from contaminated Garfield County creek
Nearly 2,000 barrels of oil and oil water have been recovered to date since the early June oil spill into a creek near the northern Oklahoma town of Kremlin. An update from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission showed 1,125 barrels of oil were recovered during the cleanup operation along the 9-Mile Creek. Another 802 barrels …
Oklahoma launches study of alternative highway funding
A statewide transportation research project mandated by the Oklahoma legislature is getting underway with a pilot project and it needs some help from Oklahomans across the state. It is called Fair Miles Oklahoma, an Oklahoma Department of Transportation research program aimed at identifying alternative approaches to funding the state’s transportation needs. The pay-per-mile pilot …
Reports show more BCE-Mach III activity in northwest Oklahoma
A series of three wells drilled in Kingfisher County by BCE-Mach III LLC was reported to Oklahoma regulators. They were among four BCE-Mach wells to be drilled in the past 12 months in northwest Oklahoma. Completion reports were filed, indicating one of the Kingfisher County wells was completed in January of 2023 while the …
Texas Railroad Commissioners fight Biden’s fossil fuel war
The Texas Railroad Commission has decided to stand up and fight the Biden’s Department of Transportation over its Railway Safety Act of 2023, a measure that could give the DOT the power to limit the transportation of fossil fuel-based energy products on freight cars. Railroad Commission chairman Christi Craddick, along with Commissioners Wayne Christian …
Nation’s biggest private oil and gas producers list is headed by Continental Resources and Ascent Resources
A new report states that two Oklahoma City-based energy companies, Continental Resources and Ascent Resources, are some of the most prolific private oil and gas producers in the U.S. The listing by Enverus Intelligence Research, a subsidiary of Enverus, was based on gross operated production last year. Continental and Ascent were followed by …
Tribes buy idle oil pipeline in North Dakota
While the picture has been painted over the past few years that Native American tribes are totally opposed to oil and gas operations, that’s not so. And the case was made over the weekend when it was announced that a tribe in North Dakota acquired an idle pipeline to help deliver oil from …
Gov. Stitt defends efforts to land renewable energy plants
Is the Gov. Stitt administration being hypocritical in its efforts to land renewable energy manufacturing plants while at the same time targeting financial institutions over their ESG policies? The question was raised by the Tulsa World this week as it reported on what Gov. Stitt’s office said in defense of his efforts to land …
Dems open probe of insurance companies that support oil and gas
In what might be a case of “two can play this game,” Democrats on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee have started an investigation into the support of new fossil fuel projects by major insurance providers. While Republicans have advanced their own efforts over ESG and discrimination of oil and gas companies, the Democrats want …
Interior Secretary greeted by angry protesters in her home state of New Mexico
If Interior Secretary Deb Haaland thought she would be welcomed with open arms when she returned to New Mexico on Sunday, she was wrong. She was met with a road blocked by a group of Navajo landowners angry at her recent decision to ban oil and gas development within a 10 mile radius of …
