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Water Board Gets Nearly $11 million EPA Grant
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board has received a nearly $11 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to fund clean-water projects in the state. The grant goes to the state’s Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund. it provides low-interest, flexible loans to communities to help them improve water quality and infrastructure. The $10.79 million will …
EPA Sued Over Radioactive Exposure Plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds itself hauled into court again, but this time by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The group filed suit in Washington, D.C., accusing the EPA of illegally withholding the specific effects of its pending plan to hike permissible radiation exposure in drinking water. The EPA has refused to disclose …
Environmentalists Mount Opposition to West Texas Drilling Around Balmorhea State Park
Environmental groups are mounting a fight against the plans of Houston-based Apache Corp. to begin drilling in its newly-found Alpine High play in far west Texas. Of big concern to some of the groups is the plan to drill around Balmorhea State Park and its famous spring-fed pool, described as the largest in the world, according …
Oil and Gas Money Split on Presidential Candidates
America’s oil and gas industry leaders are apparently split as they pour money into the Presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. As it stands less than two weeks before voters decide on who to send to the White House, it appears Hillary Clinton has received slightly more money than Trump, according to a …
Drone Attacks Helicopter—-Deputies Forced to Shoot it Down at Protest Site in North Dakota
The Dakota Access Pipeline protest supported by some Oklahoma Native American tribes saw North Dakota law enforcement officials shooting at an unmanned aircraft over the weekend. The Morton County Sheriff’s office said a helicopter that was monitoring the latest protest against the nearly $4 billion pipeline was approached by a drone in what the office …
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 …