May 6, 2025 archive

Coterra Energy trims spending and oil directed operations after 1Q financial results

    Coterra Energy Inc. released its first quarter 2025 financial and operating results this week and announced it was reducing its oil-directed activity, lowering its cap-ex range and also the number of active rigs in operation. “As our industry faces macroeconomic uncertainty and oil price headwinds, we believe it is prudent to reduce oil-directed …

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AG Drummond calls Vermont Climate Act a “direct” attack on Oklahoma energy producers

    Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond says he joined a 24-state coalition challenging Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act because he considered it a “direct attack on Oklahoma’s energy producers and the thousands of hardworking Oklahomans employed in this critical industry.” As reported earlier this week by OK Energy Today, West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey …

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Private meeting of Corporation Commissioners held May 1

    A scheduling conflict, how to prepare press releases and development of new branding—topics of the latest non-public meeting of Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners. A May 6 filing of their Open Meeting Act Exempt Event Compliance Form showed the form was completed May 5 and commissioners met May 1 at 10:30 in the morning. It …

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ATT fined thousands by Kansas regulators for slow response to 811 calls

  Telecommunications giant AT&T just got fined $60,000 by the Kansas Corporation Commission for breaking the state’s Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act. Regulators, fed up with a growing number of complaints that AT&T was not timely in locating underground lines, assessed the fine for 60 violations in a 30-day span. Just like in Oklahoma, homeowners …

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