Category: Oil & Gas

Canada allows exemptions for ConocoPhillips

  ConocoPhillips announced that it has received exemptive relief from the applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities regarding future filing requirements. The company became a reporting issuer for Canadian securities law purposes by virtue of the acquisition of Marathon Oil Corporation in November 2024, which made it subject to Canadian continuous disclosure and other reporting obligations …

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Mach dividend announced

  Mach Natural Resources LP announced that the board of directors of its general partner declared a quarterly cash distribution for the fourth quarter of 2024 of $0.50 per unit. The quarterly cash distribution is to be paid on March 13, 2025, to the Company’s unitholders of record as of the close of trading on …

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New executive at Mammoth Energy

  Mammoth Energy in Oklahoma City has a new chief executive officer on board. Phil Lancaster took over his new role on Feb. 10 as the company’s Board of Directors approved a compensation for Lancaster in connection with his appointment as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer consisting of a base salary of $350,000 per year …

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Bice says protecting American energy and fracking is critical

  Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Stephanie Bice is waging a campaign for congressional approval of a bill to protect American energy. It is also a bill to protect “fracking” and to prevent any future president from banning its use. “That is why the passage of H.R. 26, the Protecting American Energy Protection Act, was critical,” stated …

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Energy briefs

** Iowa House lawmakers advance bills that would strengthen eminent domain protections, limit permit lengths and include more involvement of a consumer advocacy office in an effort to clamp down on carbon pipelines. ** The federal Bonneville Power Administration could lose up to 20% of its workforce to the Trump administration’s job cuts and hiring freeze, raising concerns about …

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Former Corporation Commissioner says Rep. Caldwell’s electric transmission bill is “wrongheaded”

  Rep. Trey Caldwell of Lawton doesn’t refer to the controversial issue of ROFR or Right of First Refusal in his HB2747, a bill dealing with competitive bidding by utilities. But former Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Jim Roth says it’s a ROFR bill and he’s against it. “That’s not accelerating economic development. It’s not consistent with …

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Crude oil and OK energy stocks finished down on Friday

  Crude oil prices and most Oklahoma energy stocks finished down in Friday’s trading as analysts blamed the prospects for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine for possibly easing global supply disruptions. The disruptions might end if US oil sanctions were ended against Moscow. West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark in the U.S. dropped 55 …

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Legislator files another Supreme Court challenge of Todd Hiett’s votes

One of the three Republican legislators who took Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett to court over the sexual abuse allegations against him, filed another appeal with the Supreme Court on Thursday, this one challenging the recently-approved PSO rate hike. The challenge by Rep. Tom Gann, Inola, came only days after the court dismissed the appeal he …

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Sen. Lankford attacks Biden Administration in latest Federal Fumbles book

  Elon Musk and Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford have something in common—-each is focused on eliminating government waste. Each is also highly critical of what the Biden administration’s green new energy plan did to the nation’s energy industry. Musk, of course, is in charge of DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency while Sen. Lankford …

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Mach’s public offering leads to expanded sales

  Underwriters of a public offering of nearly 13 million shares in Mach Natural Resources LP apparently want more. The Oklahoma City energy company announced this week that the underwriters of its previously announced public offering of 12,903,226 common units representing limited partner interests in Mach have fully exercised their option to purchase an additional 1,935,483 …

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