Read for Adventure, the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden’s statewide literacy program, continues for its fourth year with an exciting change that will have participants all a flutter! Sponsored by OG&E, this year’s program features a new, original children’s book, Juniper’s Butterfly Garden–A Small Start for a Better World. Beginning Wednesday, July 8, …
Oklahoma City’s Ovintiv Mid-Continent Inc. reports one of the largest crude oil wells to be drilled in the state during the COVID-19 pandemic that left Oklahoma nearly void of oil-drilling rigs. The company filed a completion report with regulators this week showing the Larry 0804 3h-22x, located at 27 8N 4W in McClain County or …
As the U.S. went back to work following a 3-day July 4th holiday weekend, oil prices notched a slight gain and came to rest at nearly $41 a barrel. Observers say there are continued worries about the lack of demand as COVID-19 still has people backing off wide-spread travel. West Texas Intermediate …
** Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has announced an agreement to purchase the natural gas transmission and storage assets of utility company Dominion Energy Inc. in a deal currently valued at $9.7 billion in total, including a cash payment of $4 billion and the assumption of $5.7 billion of debt incurred by the Gas Transmission & Storage segment …
The Oklahoma City Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is planning an economic forum this month to discuss the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic along with the oil and gas crisis. Chad Wilkerson, Oklahoma City Branch executive, vice president and economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will …
Your eyes are not deceiving you. Temperatures of up to 110 are in the forecast for the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles this week as extreme heat is about to slap the state. As Oklahoma Climatologist Gary McManus wrote in his Monday Mesonet report, “For this week, however, the point is the heat is on, and …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners plan another regular meeting this week where they will attend “in person” but the public will have to rely on video or telephone communications to take part. The Wednesday morning meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:30 and the Commission will consider yet another extension of its COVID-19 responsive order that …
The July newsletter, New Pioneer, published by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce was released this week. It details a number of business articles across the state including the extension of the main runway of the Jones Memorial Airport at Bristow where U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe recently spoke. Other articles focus on the assistance given …
BE Houston’s Quintana Energy Services, the firm set to merge with KLX Energy Services has avoided delisting from the New York Stock Exchange. The two firms are set to complete a merger announced in April. KLX Energy, with a field operations office located in Yukon, Oklahoma announced in May it intended to merge with Quintana, …
While Elon Musk decides whether to locate a new Tesla truck manufacturing plant in Tulsa or Austin, Texas, his company’s stock is rising. Tesla’s stock reached fresh records in the holiday-shortened week, helped along by higher than expected second-quarter delivery numbers the electric automaker reported early Thursday. Morgan Stanley analysts, in a note, said the …