Oklahoma City’s Continental Resources company recently lost an appeals court case in North Dakota after being sued over a horizontal wastewater disposal well. As Justia US Law reported, the case involves Continental Resources, Inc., an Oklahoma oil and gas company, and Rick and Rosella Fisher, who own a farm in North Dakota. Continental …
It took eleven years for the state of Arkansas along with the federal government to take legal action, but on Friday, they sued ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. for the 2013 Pegasus oil pipeline leak that flooded the city of Mayflower with crude oil. And already a settlement is in the works and paperwork could …
(Frank Morris–Harvest Public Media) It’s called agrivoltaics—the coexistance of solar farming with production agriculture. As solar farming spreads radidly, it’s consuming valuable farm land in some instances. But in more and more cases, livestock are being allowed to graze and roam under higher placed solar panels. A site north of Lawrence, Kansas is one example …
** Elon Musk’s Tesla is not the only electric vehicle company laying off workers en masse; one of its rivals, Lucid, announced last week that it’s laying off about 400 people, SFGate reports, more than a year after another round of layoffs that saw 1,300 people get the boot. ** An Iowa Republican congressional candidate says the government …
For the record, Oklahoma’s ROFR or Right of First Refusal Bill, died in the just-concluded legislative session. At the same time, Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners were urged by their Public Utilities Division not to adopt ROFR or another controversial rate-making proposal called PBR or Performance Based Ratemaking. Commissioners were recently given a 37-page recommendation …
The latest rig report from Baker Hughes showed no change in the nation’s oil and gas rig count but a decline in Oklahoma. The report released on Friday indicated the nationwide count remained at 600 rigs after a decline of one oil rig leaving 496 in the patch and a gain of one gas …
Reports suggest Oklahoma City’s Devon Energy has been on the prowl in the past several months for expansion of its oil and gas holdings. The company, reported The Motley Fool, recently was interested in acquiring Marathon Oil, firm that was grabbed last week by ConocoPhillips. Devon even held talks with Marathon officials to …
The Oklahoma Transportation Commission’s monthly meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, June 3, in the R.A. Ward Transportation Building, 200 N.E. 21st St., Oklahoma City. Items to be addressed at the meeting: Oklahoma Transportation Commissioners will be presented with and vote on whether to approve the department’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Work Program. Oklahoma Department of Transportation …
Stating that “Reliable access to electricity is crucial for modern farming operations,” former Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Denise Bode is advocating a major upgrade for the country’s electric grid. Writing in the Sunday Oklahoman, Bode noted how the “aging infrastructure is struggling to meeting our modern electricity needs.” She said as a former chair of the …
Representatives of Oklahoma City-based M-5 Energy Suppliers recently paid a visit to Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin in Washington, D.C. The senator made reference to the visit in a recent newsletter. “The Biden administration certainly has not made it easy on them, and I am very appreciative of the work that they do,” said …
