Jones Energy Terminates President and CEO

A Texas energy company with a heavy drilling commitment in western Oklahoma has dumped its CEO. Jones Energy, Inc. based in Austin, Texas removed Jonny Jones as Chief Executive Officer and Mike S. McConnell as President. Word came in a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While Jones was removed as CEO, he …

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WPX Energy Flooded With Senior Note Offers

WPX Energy in Tulsa says its offer to purchase up to $500 million in outstanding senior notes resulted in nearly $1 billion in notes offered for sale. The company announced the cash tender offers earlier in the month for outstanding 7.500% Senior Notes due 2020, 6.000% Senior Notes due 2022 and 8.250% Senior Notes due …

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Ward Energy Sells Colorado Assets but is Mum About the Buyer

Ward Energy Partners, LLC, a firm with major operations and offices in Oklahoma City and Energy has announced the sale of assets in northern Colorado. But the company did not reveal the identity of the buyer of the assets in Adams and Weld Counties nor did it state the amount of the sale. The assets …

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Analyst Day Set by Williams in Tulsa

Tulsa’s Williams and Williams Partners have announced they plan to hold their annual Analyst Day on May 17. During the day, company leaders will give in-depth presentations covering all of the company’s and partnership’s energy infrastructure businesses. The Analyst Day meeting will begin at 7:15 a.m. Central Time and run approximately four hours. For those …

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Tallgrass Energy to Release 1Q Report May 3

Pipeline operator Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP plans to announce its first quarter 2018 financial results on May 3. The company will release the report on that Thursday and hold a conference call later in the day. In announcing its fourth quarter 2017 earnings in February, the Leawood, Kansas based company called it “another outstanding year …

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Oklahoma Pipeline Trespassing Lawsuit to Be Heard by Denver Federal Appeals Court

The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver is set to hear arguments next month in a lawsuit filed against Enable Midstream Partners, L.P. in which the company’s accused of trespassing on Caddo County land. The 2015 lawsuit was filed by Marcia Davilla and others in a case involving 137 acres that had originally …

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FCC Commissioner Announces Resignation

  FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn announced this week she intends to resign after being named to the Commission in 2009 by President Barack Obama.  She previously was Acting Chairwoman in 2013. During her tenure, Clyburn helped author the net neutrality regulations that were put in place in 2015.  She also opposed their repeal last year. …

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Corporation Commission Promotes Safe Digging Month

April is National Safe Digging Month, and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission is reminding Oklahomans that any outdoor digging project this spring should start with a phone call. Commission Chairman Dana Murphy says dialing  8-1-1 can save you from a terrible accident. “There’s more than just earth beneath your feet,” said Murphy. “Oklahoma has thousands of miles of buried pipeline and utility cable. The only …

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Icahn Announces His Nominations to Control Board at SandRidge

As he attempts to take over the board of directors at Oklahoma City-based SandRidge Energy, activist Carl Icahn has unveiled his proposed list of five directors. He revealed their names this week in his proxy fight with the company. They include: Jonathan Frates, Nicholas Graziano, John J. “Jack” Lipinski, Bob G. Alexander and Randolph C. …

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Rep. Bridenstine Awaits Possible Senate Vote This Week on his NASA Nomination

Oklahoma Congressman Jim Bridenstine might learn this week if he is going to become the new administrator of NASA. The U.S. is reported to be poised to vote on his second nomination by President Donald Trump.  The first failed to make it to the Senate before the end of the congressional session in 2017, prompting …

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