Pawnee, the city hit by an early September earthquake measuring 5.8 magnitude, the largest ever recorded in Oklahoma plans to host an earthquake forum on Saturday. The forum will also be hosed by the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma t the Pawnee Nation Roam Chief Event Center, 810 Morris Road in Pawnee. it will be held …
Devon Energy Corporation’s co-founder and chairman emeritus, Larry Nichols, will be honored with the Eugene Kuntz Award at the University of Oklahoma College of Law’s annual conference on natural resources law and policy on November 4. The award recognizes Nichols’ many contributions to the energy industry, particularly oil and gas law. “We are thrilled to …
Hart Energy’s 4th annual DUG Midcontinent conference is underway in downtown Oklahoma City with keynote addresses to take place Thursday. The opening keynote will be Thursday morning at 8:35 featuring Wade Hutchings, Regional Vice President of Midcontinent Assets at Marathon Oil Corporation. A 9 a.m. economics panel will feature Ed Morse, Managing Director and Global …
The oil pipeline leak at Cushing over the weekend has given concern to environmentalists who believe it might be a sign of things to come because of Oklahoma’s increase in earthquakes. While a 3.1 magnitude earthquake rattled the Garfield County town of Covington early Wednesday morning, the cleanup remained underway at the Seaway Pipeline, …
Tulsa-based Williams Partners declared a regular quarterly cash distribution of $0.85 per unit for its common shareholders as announced by the company on Tuesday. The partnership’s board of directors approved the quarterly cash distribution, which is payable on November 11, 2016, to common shareholders of record at the close of business on November 4, 2016. …
West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures settled below $50 a barrel on Tuesday, as traders were pressured by Iraq’s aversion to OPEC’s proposed production plan and anxiously awaited the weekly status of U.S. oil inventories, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, December WTI crude slid 56 cents, or 1.1%, to settle at …
The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission’s recent report that the downturn in Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry might have hit bottom might be supported by Halliburton. The Houston, Texas based company opened a job fair this week in Yukon at the Yukon Event Center. Its sign advertising job openings for mechanical and electronic technicians. Inside, applicants …
The President of a brine processing company that wants to build a $175 million plant in Oklahoma told a State House Committee hearing on Tuesday what some oil and gas groups have done in the past few years has been a “dog and pony show” when it comes to injection wells and earthquakes in the …
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 …
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 …
