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Oil and Gas Execs Warn Oklahoma Leaders Not to Interfere in STACK and SCOOP—-Don’t Screw this up
“Be very careful with doing anything that might screw that up.” Warning from Lee Boothby, CEO of Newfield Exploration. Executives of four energy companies with extensive work in Oklahoma’s STACK and SCOOP plays made it clear this past week, yes the rewards of the big plays are nice but there are concerns too …
Hutchings Assumes Chairmanship of Oklahoma Oil and Gas Association
The Oklahoma Oil and Gas Association is under the leadership of a newly-elected chairman following the Association’s one-day annual meeting in Oklahoma City. At the meeting, association members elected Wade Hutchings, regional vice president of Mid-Continent Assets at Marathon Oil, to be the new chairman of OKOGA and ratified the board of directors for 2017. …
Rig Counts Jump in the U.S. and Oklahoma
The growing interest of the nation’s oil and gas industry in the big oil plays in Oklahoma and the Permian Basin of Northwest Texas is reflected by a swelling count of rigs, according to the latest figures released by Texas-based Baker Hughes. More rigs are apparently being taken out of storage and put back …
Williams to Appeal $16 million Judgment Over 2013 Chemical Plant Explosion in Louisiana
A jury in New Orleans awarded $16 million to four workers injured in the deadly 2013 petrochemical plant explosion at an operation run by Tulsa-based Williams Cos. It’s the second major award in the incident. In late September, a jury awarded four other workers $13.6 million for injuries they suffered at the Williams Olefins Geismar …
OIPA’s Mike Terry Announces Retirement
Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (OIPA) President Mike Terry has announced he will retire, ending a decade-long tenure as the head of the state’s largest oil and natural gas advocacy group. Terry’s retirement will take effect Dec. 31, 2017. “It has been an honor to serve the industry I love and the people in it,” Terry …
North Dakota’s Oil Production Falls Again
As oil production in Oklahoma is on the upswing, the downturn is still taking away revenue and production in what once was one of the biggest oil producing sections of the country—-North Dakota’s Bakken play. The North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources reports September production dropped by more than 10,000 barrels, doing from more than …
Court Rules Against Gas Line Developer Wanting to Survey on Private Land
Constructing a pipeline is getting to be quite a challenge these days. While hundreds of Native Americans are protesting the building of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota, landowners in West Virginia are fighting a natural gas pipeline developer. And they’ve won a West Virginia Supreme court ruling that the developer will not …
Cause Probed in Deadly Natural Gas Blast in Canton, Ohio
It was a worker for a gas company investigating a leak who was killed this week in a natural gas explosion in Canton, Ohio. The person worked for Ameren Illiniois. Eleven others were injured in the massive blast that happened just before 6 p.m. on Wednesday. “All of the sudden, I heard the biggest kaboom …
State’s Largest Earthquake at Pawnee Leads to Lawsuit Against Two Oil and Gas Firms
The Sept. 3 earthquake that measured 5.8 magnitude in Pawnee has led to the filing of a class-action lawsuit against at least two oil and gas companies, blaming them for the damages. The suit was filed Thursday in Pawnee County District court (CJ-2016-78) by James Adams and others against Eagle Road Oil LLC, Cummings Oil …
Drought Getting a Grasp of More Parts of Oklahoma
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows dry conditions in Oklahoma are getting dryer. “Paints a really nasty picture for SE U.S. through Oklahoma into the High Plains,” is how Gary McManus of the Oklahoma Mesonet put it in Thursday’s report. The Panhandle and southeastern Oklahoma are in areas described as where the “drought persists” while …