Category: Oil & Gas

Rubio to Campaign at Devon Tower on Friday

In announcing Marco Rubio’s campaign appearance set for Friday in Oklahoma City, his campaign also confirmed that Larry Nichols, co-founder of Devon Energy Corp. is an energy advisor to the Florida U.S. Senator who’s hoping to pick up the Republican no…

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Lucid Energy Gets $350 million From EnCap Flatrock Midstream

Dallas-based Lucid Energy Group II, LLC announced it has secured an initial equity commitment of $350 million from EnCap Flatrock Midstream, a San Antonio company with offices in Oklahoma City and Houston, Texas.
Lucid’s a company with a midstream foo…

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Sanders Bringing his Anti-Fossil Fuel Campaign to Oil-Rich Tulsa

Bernie Sanders will bring his campaign promoting climate change and free education to Tulsa on Wednesday, a city that was built on the state’s rich oil history but an industry that Sanders wants to eliminate. He will speak during an appearance in the s…

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Idaho Legislature Works to Speed Oil and Gas Production

In Idaho, a Senate committee has voted 8-1 in favor of an industry-backed bill speeding up natural gas and oil production in the state. The bill approved by the Senate Resources and Environment Committee would change the state’s decision making proces…

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New Chairman at Oil States International

The former CEO of EOG Resources, Mark Papa has taken over as chairman of the board of Oil States International Inc. in Houston. He replaces Stephen Wells who has resigned after 10 years leading the company. Wells will continue as director of the compan…

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Erin Brockovich to Headline Earthquake Forum in Edmond

An earthquake forum to be held Tuesday on the campus of the University of Central Oklahoma will feature environmentalist Erin Brockovich, the advocate whose life story was turned into a movie starring Julia Roberts.
She and others will discuss the num…

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Awaiting Chesapeake and SandRidge Energy Quarterly Reports

Two major energy firms headquartered in Oklahoma City have yet to release their quarterly and yearly earnings but one of them, Chesapeake Energy will make those figures available on Wednesday.
SandRidge Energy, facing critical financial challenges has…

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Latest on Oklahoma’s Lawsuit Challenging EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Two major energy firms headquartered in Oklahoma City have yet to release their quarterly and yearly earnings but one of them, Chesapeake Energy will make those figures available on Wednesday.
SandRidge Energy, facing critical financial challenges has…

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Federal Appeals Court Hears More Arguments in Fracking Fight

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has heard the arguments of North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah against speeding up any consideration of their challenge to Bureau of Land Management rules governing hydraulic fracturing on federal and t…

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Economist Offers “Bleak” Picture for Oklahoma’s Oil and Gas Industry

The atmosphere in some senses was not optimistic nor hopeful at the recent Mid-Continent Digital Oilfield Conference held in Tulsa by the organization called Sustaining Oklahoma’s Energy Resources. Just how bad was it? Some conferees were walking arou…

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