A bizarre and stunning twist developed in the U.S. Justice Department’s indictment of Oklahoma oilman Aubrey McClendon when the 56-year old former Chesapeake Energy CEO was killed in a Wednesday morning traffic crash in Oklahoma City.
There is specula…
A day after Aubrey McClendon was indicted on bid-rigging charges, the 56-year old former President of Chesapeake Energy is dead.
Police in Oklahoma City confirm McClendon was killed in a fiery one-car crash around 9 a.m. at NE 122nd and Midwest Boulev…
The federal indictment this week against Oklahoma oilman Aubrey McClendon should not have been a surprise to him nor to his attorneys. Unless he felt that with his departure as the head of Chesapeake Energy, the Justice Department no longer was i…
Another drop in ethanol production in the U.S. was reported last week. The production averaged 987,000 barrels a day or 41.45 million gallons daily. But that is a decline of 7,000 barrels a day from the previous week, according to the Energy Info…
The federal government says Iowa became the first state in 2015 to provide more than 30 percent of its electricity generation from wind. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said Iowa’s wind farms generated more than 31 percent of all gener…
The government says crude oil production was up in 2015 nationwide and in Oklahoma. But production also started showing some declines in December as oil prices continued their plunge, rigs were idled and layoffs started in the oil patch.
The U.S…
Oklahoma State Treasurer Ken Miller is out with his latest Oklahoma Economic Report detailing how the energy slump continues to hurt the state’s economy. As Miller announced earlier, the monthly gross receipts to the Treasury in January took thei…
A bill that would allow night-time hunting of wild pigs in Oklahoma won approval in a state House committee this week.
House bill 1068, by Rep. Bobby Cleveland would allow for nightime hunting and headlight hunting of feral swine on private land, if t…
The government says crude oil production was up in 2015 nationwide and in Oklahoma. But production also started showing some declines in December as oil prices continued their plunge, rigs were idled and layoffs started in the oil patch.
The U.S…
Oklahoma oilman Aubrey McClendon vows to fight the Oklahoma City federal grand jury indictment of bid-rigging returned against him and professes his innocence. In a statement issued Tuesday night, the President of American Energy Partners and former ex…
