Protesters opposing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Canada say they’ve canceled demonstrations and events due to Covid-19, and have increasingly depended on phone blitzes and social media campaigns. But with work on big pipeline projects deemed essential, construction has continued through the pandemic, leaving activists to think about what on-the-ground actions they can take …
Oklahoma City has received a $4.6 million loan from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board to do repairs and improvements to prevent pollution of Lake Overholser and Lake Stanley Draper. The loan was approved at a recent meeting of the Water Resources Board, its second-ever virtual meeting due to the coronavirus pandemic. The loan to Oklahoma …
Of the few recently completion reports filed with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission two were sister wells producing more than 1,100 barrels of oil a day out of a single pad site in Dewey County. The wells were actually drilled in 2018 and finished in 2019 by Tapstone Energy LLC which just filed the completion reports …
Tulsa’s Unit Corporation became the latest bankruptcy victim of the coronavirus pandemic and the oil crisis, as the company announced it has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the federal bankruptcy court in Houston, Texas, citing debts of more than $1 billion. The company stated it filed the Chapter 11 reorganization, a move that will reduce …
While the nation’s number of active oil and gas rigs fell by 21 in the past week to only 318, Oklahoma’s count stayed unchanged at an even 12 rigs. Baker Hughes Co. reported the U.S. lost 21 oil rigs in the past week as the count tumbled to 237 while the number of gas …
The Oklahoma legislature voted Friday to override Gov. Kevin Stitt’s veto of a rural broadband expansion plan that was part of House Bill 4018 and Senate Bill 1002. All stakeholders will be at the table in public meetings to craft an actionable rural broadband expansion plan for Oklahoma under legislation enacted by veto override Friday. …
Construction is underway on a $60 million, 35-mile gas pipeline in northern New Mexico. The New Mexico Gas Company is building the line from Bernalillo just north of Albquerque to Santa Fe and it should be online next December. The new line is being laid parallel to an existing line next to Interstate 25. Utility …
When the coronavirus pandemic caused businesses to shutter their offices in favor of telecommuting, many students in the University of Oklahoma Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy lost summer internships. With internships a graduation requirement for some majors, students’ graduation tracks were in jeopardy. That’s when the college’s Ronnie K. Irani Center for Energy …
Oklahoma’s initial jobless claims made during the pandemic are falling but still remain high according to the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. Initial claims for the week ending May 16 dropped by nearly 16,000 from the previous week. They totaled 23,880 compared to the 39,079 filed in the previous week. The Tulsa World’s Randy Krehbiel wrote …
While battling opponents in a Montana federal court, Canadian company TC Energy reports it has completed the first piece of its controversial Keystone XL pipeline across the U.S. border and started work on labor camps in South Dakota and Montana. Work finally started in April on the $8 billion project at the border crossing in …
