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Beltway Out of Touch Over Lost Energy Jobs?
As layoffs in Oklahoma’s energy sector grow weekly, is the story being heard in Washington D.C.’s Beltway? U.S. Senator James Lankford says it is among those like him who represent oil and natural gas states.
“I would disagree with those affected by …
Recovery Will Take Too Long for Some Oil Companies to Survive
Survival. It’s what oil and natural gas companies are dealing with as energy prices swirl lower and lower. The very idea that some major companies that once could afford to wait out the low prices now cannot because they accumulated too much debt in th…
Wyoming Adopts New Natural Gas Flaring Rules
While the Interior Department prepares to hold a public hearing in Oklahoma City on venting and flaring rules on public and Indian Trust Lands, the state of Wyoming approves new flaring rules this week covering any newly-drilled wells.
Under the rules…
Hearing for New Anti-Flaring Rules to be held in OKC
The U.S. Interior Department is preparing to hold a public meeting later this month in Oklahoma City on a proposed rule targeting the practice of “flaring” or what Interior Secretary Sally Jewell calls the “harmful release of natural gas.”
The meeting…
Pickens Backs Out of Energy Investments for Now
The man everyone listened to about oil, T-Boone Pickens admits it—he’s cashed out on all of his energy-related positions. It’s what he recently told Bloomberg, explaining that he is waiting for the right chance to re-enter the market. He also predict…
Empty Mancamps in North Dakota
The impact of the oil and gas downturn is evident in every state where there’s energy production. Oklahoma isn’t alone. Ask the people in North Dakota where, because of the Bakken oil play, the state had a ‘boom’ in the past several years.
But as The …
Thieves Active in the Oil Patch
Low oil and natural gas prices aren’t the only things that energy workers have to focus on these days. How about criminals. The Canadian County Sheriff’s office, in a weekly crime report called Wise Eyes referred to numerous thefts in the oil patch.
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Rig Counts Plummeting in Oklakhoma and the U.S.
Both the nation’s and Oklahoma’s oil and natural gas rig counts are plummeting—-8 lost in Oklahoma in the past week while the nation suffered a drop of 48 working rigs. The downturn is quickly gaining speed as prices remain in the low $30s and in eff…
OIPA Calls President’s $10 Oil Tax “Short Sighted” and “Uneducated”
The Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association makes it clear it does not like the President’s $10 a barrel tax on oil proposal and suggests such a tax would make the U.S. more dependent than ever on foreign produced oil.
“President Obama has not hidd…
New President Named at Holly Logistic Services
Holly Energy Partners, L.P., the firm with oil refineries in Tulsa, Oklahoma has announced the appointment of Mark A. Plake as President of Holly Logistic Services, LLC effective Feb. 15, 2016.
He will resign as President of HLS on that same date but …
