In exploring Halliburton’s layoff of 5,000 workers announced last week, News 9 reporter Dana Hertneky learned how one county’s jobless rate has soared in the past months. It is Stephens County where Halliburton got its start decades ago. It still has m…
Oklahoma City-based Enable Midstream Partners, LP announced the naming of an independent director to its board of directors. He is energy industry veteran Ronnie K. Irani, president and CEO of RKI Energy Resources whose appointment is effect March 1, 2…
When the Oklahoma Corporation Commission holds a regular meeting on Wednesday, it will attempt to make rule changes resulting from the December 2015 decision by SandRidge Energy to fight the shutdown and reduction of operation of some of its wastewater…
While the Oklahoma Corporation Commission studies the impact of its latest steps in controlling earthquakes and wastewater disposal wells, northern Oklahoma was shaken by more earthquakes.
Two happened Monday morning near Mooreland. The first was at 3…
Oklahoma congressman Markwayne Mullin and others on a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a legislative hearing on Tuesday to examine the nation’s pipeline safety reauthorization.
Five witnesses will appear before the Sub…
The number of crude oil rail cars passing through Oklahoma and other energy-rich states declined last year in the U.S. as oil prices fell. That’s according to the Association of American Railroads.
The group said 410,249 carloads of crude were carried…
Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners will have to cough up another $100,000 to pay for an independent review of its construction of the biggest-capacity pipeline proposed to move crude from North Dakota’s oil patch. The state Emergency Commission vote…
Another round of bad news for Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy as Fitch ratings has downgraded the company’s long-term issuer defaulting rating from ‘B’ to ‘B-‘, according to an announcement by the Chicago based firm.
Fitch indicated the downgrad…
The nation lost more rigs in the oil and gas industry in the past week while the losses leveled off in Oklahoma, according to the latest data from Baker Hughes Company of Houston, Texas.
Oklahoma remained at 73 but was still far below the count of 146…
The first international shipment of liquefied natural gas from the lower 48 states of the U.S. went to Brazil, marking a significant point in U.S. energy history because it shows the strength of the nation’s natural gas production, production that has …
