A new Water Resources Development Act reported to be agreed upon by negotiators in Washington includes funding for improvements to Oklahoma’s McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. POLITICO reported the measure is being teed up enabling the House to vote on it this week and advance it through the Senate as part of a year-end …
What has happened to Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry in the past 9 months due to the coronavirus pandemic is giving state government leaders a dose of reality. Those oil and gas drilling rigs in storage aren’t producing revenue for the state. State Treasurer Randy McDaniel announced Monday the latest gross receipts to the …
The city of Denton, Texas might revisit a move to require 20-foot setbacks around plugged gas wells. The Denton Record-Chronicle reported a city council candidate’s call for such an ordinance might prompt city leaders to consider it next month. Click here for the Denton Record-Chronicle story.
A Sunday morning storage tank explosion at a Corpus Christi, Texas petroleum facility owned by an Oklahoma based company left seven contractors injured–four critically. It happened at a facility run by Tulsa-based Magellan Midstream Partners where Mark Calhoun, the operations manager explained the blast occurred when a fire broke out near a crude oil …
Interest in resuming oil and gas exploration in Oklahoma is slowly on the increase as at least 26 permits to drill were issued last week by regulators. Not only were for new drilling. Two permits were issued for State Well plugging in Okmulgee County. The permits included one in Custer County, one in Harper, …
Oklahoma’s STACK is alive and well! Devon Energy filed completion reports this past week on two wells drilled on a single pad with combined production of nearly 1,700 barrels of oil a day. The company filed reports last week on two Privott 17_20 wells in Kingfisher County. Their legal description site is 17 16N 9W. …
For now, Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners won’t be giving any regulatory authority over oil and gas activities inside Indian Country to the tribes. Commissioners voted last week to continue with their authority over the region of land despite last spring’s U.S. Supreme Court McGirt decision which said criminal prosecutions must be handled by federal courts …
The New Mexico State Land Office filed lawsuits against multiple oil and gas companies the office alleged were in violation of obligations to remediate land used for extraction operations after production ceased. The Albuquerque Journal reported the civil actions were brought this fall against the operators and other users of state trust land for …
The Southwest Airlines Co. call center in Oklahoma City will be hit with what the company calls a “mass furlough” starting in March because the company has lost billions of dollars due to the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in reduced travel by the public. The Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development was notified that at …
Devon Energy and WPX Energy indicate they are approaching the stage in their merger of deciding which employees will stay and which ones will be a part of the new company. “—one of the critical next steps is identifying how and when talent decisions will be made and communicated,” stated the two firms in …
