A big oil and gas purchase in North Dakota and Montana. Samson Oil and Gas USA Inc. is buying 41 net producing wells and more than 51,000 acres of leases for $16.5 million. The company, based in Denver, Colorado and with its parent owner in Australia …
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Directors Chosen at Enterprise Products
Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners L.P., a firm with extensive pipeline operations in Oklahoma announced the election of directors constituting the board of its general partner, Enterprise Products Holdings LLC.
Richard H. Bachman, president a…
1,000 barrel Oil Well in Garvin County
Houston, Texas-based Marathon Oil reports some success in southern Oklahoma with a more than 1,000-barrel-a-day well. The latest completion reports, as published on OK Energy Today, shows Marathon hit the well about 7 miles southeast of Lindsays.
The…
Judge Won’t Dismiss Prague Earthquake Lawsuit
A Lincoln County District Court Judge has refused to dismiss the lawsuit filed against two energy companies accusing them of causing the 5.6 magnitude 2011 earthquake that damaged homes and businesses and injured some residents in Prague.
Judge Cynthi…
Mustang Oilfield Injection Well Fight Heads to Trial in Late February
A trial date has been set for late February in the fight by Mustang residents against the efforts of Dallas-based Mid-Con Energy to create 15 injection wells in a waterflood project to recover oil from an old oilfield site near the city.
Residents are…
Mustang Oilfield Site Fight Heads to Trial in Late February
A trial date has been set for late February in the fight by Mustang residents against the efforts of Dallas-based Mid-Con Energy to create 15 injection wells in a waterflood project to recover oil from an old oilfield site near the city.
Residents are…
Judge Won’t Budge in Fracking fight in Wyoming
The Wyoming federal judge who refuses to speed up the legal fight over the federal government’s right to regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands is under fire from the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM recently argued that U.S. Distr…
North Dakota to Consider another Bakken Pipeline
North Dakota might see construction of another crude oil pipeline.
State regulators are planning a hearing on Jan. 12 for the proposed 8-mile long Sacagawea Pipeline Co.’s line that carries a $18 million price tag.
The 12-inch diameter crude oil pipe…
Governor’s Critic to Hold Day-long Earthquake Forum at Capitol
The same day the Oklahoma Corporation Commission announced its latest plans targeting wastewater injection wells because they are suspected of causing major earthquakes in Edmond, Oklahoma City Rep. Richard Morrissette said he will hold an earthquake p…
First US Exported Oil Enroute to Italy
Could be a matter of a few days before the U.S. shipment of crude oil to a foreign nation arrives after departing a Texas port the day before New Year’s Day. The “Theo T” tanker left NuStar Energy LP’s dockside facility in Corpus Christi, Texas carryi…