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Part of Seaway Pipeline Reopened After Oil Spill at Cushing
Officials with Enterprise Products Partners say most of the oil that leaked Sunday night from its Seaway Crude Pipeline system at Cushing was contained in a retention pond The leak happened at a facility belonging to Enbridge Inc., a joint-owner of the Seaway Crude Pipeline company with Enterprise. Enterprise shut down the 400,000-bpd pipeline …
Oklahoma has Lowest Gasoline Prices in the U.S.
Oklahoma now has the lowest pump price average in the nation, according to the Fuel Gauge Report from AAA Oklahoma. The State’s new average is $2.01 a gallon, a drop of 3 and a half cents in the past week. Bartlesville and Lawton have the lowest averages of $1.89 each. For Lawton, that’s a 9 …
Latest Big Wells Discovered in STACK by Newfield Exploration
Houston, Texas based Newfield Exploration continues with its discoveries of major oil producing wells in Oklahoma’s STACK, the massive oil play located in Canadian, Blaine and Kingfisher counties. As show on OK Energy Today’s Completion Reports, Newfield’s biggest find in recent weeks was a well producing 1,229 barrels of oil a day at a site …
Energy Group Leader says Oil and Gas Industry is Key to Economic Success of Oklahoma
The head of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association says it’s clear the hope is the state’s oil and gas industry will continue to see improvements to offer relief to the Oklahoma economy. Writing in the Journal Record, Mike Terry reflected on how the Oklahoma Energy Index recently showed a gain of 100 jobs, a gain …
Claims Surpass $1 billion Against Aubrey McClendon’s Estate
Nearly 7 and a half months after Oklahoma energy leader Aubrey McClendon was killed in a traffic crash, the claims against his estate have gone beyond $1 billion. Most of the claims have been made by Wilmington Trust and Chesapeake Energy Corp., the firm he helped found before he was forced out a few years …
Harold Hamm Says Trump’s Energy Policies Could Result in Energy Independence by 2022
Oklahoma oilman Harold Hamm still thinks Donald Trump would be far better for the U.S. energy industry than Hillary Clinton. Maybe even resulting in U.S. energy independence in the next 6 years. “Hillary Clinton wants to follow on with President Obama and basically discount what’s been given with this American renaissance,” he told CNBC …
Texas Panhandle Getting Another Wind Farm
Another big wind farm is planned for the Texas Panhandle, one to be located at 11,000 acres of land about 30 miles south of Amarillo. Falvez Energy recently closed financing on the 163-megawatt wind farm planned for Randall, Castro and Deaf Smith counties, according to a report in the Amarillo Globe. The company said the …
Crude Oil Leak at Seaway Pipeline in Cushing
An oil spill is being cleaned up by Seaway Crude Pipeline Company workers at the Cushing tank farm. The company confirms the crude oil release from its pipeline near the intersection of Linwood Avenue and Texaco Road in Cushing but does not offer details as to how much crude was leaked. “There is no threat …
Chemical Leak Left Dozens Treated in Atchison, Kansas
Things are back to normal in Atchison, Kansas following a Friday morning chemical plant leak that resulted in a few dozen residents being treated. Authorities in the northeast Oklahoma City blamed it on what they called an “inadvertent” mixture of sodium hypocholorite and sulfuric acity, according to a report in the Kansas City Star. At …
Oklahoma’s Rig Count Holds Steady…..Nation’s Count grows by 14
While the nation’s oil and gas rig count increased by 14 in the past week, the count in Oklahoma remained at 73 from last week, according to oilfield servicing company, Baker Hughes Inc. of Houston, Texas. The U.S. count reached 553 but is still 234 below last year’s count at this time of 787. So …