A filing by a 10% owner of Chesapeake Energy in Oklahoma City reflected a power of attorney. CG Subsidiary Holdings LLC made the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on behalf of the Carlyle Group of Washington, D.C. The Carlyle Group owns 172,897,387 common shares in the company and made the filing to reflect …
The issue of those pesky robo-calls will finally be decided by the U.S. Court and a decision could come in 2020 whether something legally can be done about them. The Court has agreed to hear a case this spring over the constitutionality of a federal law banning calls or texting cellphones with an auto-dialer …
Oklahoma Gov. Kevn Stitt on Monday tweeted of his success in saving more money for the state in light of the energy slowdown that has seen fewer oil and gas rigs and a decline in income from the energy sector. “You demanded better fiscal management of state tax dollars, & we delivered by putting …
Houston’s Marathon Oil Co. continues to find success in Oklahoma’s SCOOP with a Stephens County well producing more than 2,000 barrels of oil a day. The Papa Pump 0204-2-3-34sxh well, located in far northeast Stephens County at 10 2N 4W was completed in November 2019. Reports show it had an August 2019 spud date and …
While the trial of lawsuits filed against National Oilwell Varco following a 2018 gas rig explosion that killed 5 men near Quinton, Oklahoma is underway, the Texas company and others have been hit with two more lawsuits from the incident. The first was filed in December by Derik Delozier, an employee of Patterson-UTI Drilling Company …
The lone trial stemming from lawsuits filed after the deaths of five workers during a gas well rig explosion and fire in 2018 near Quinton, Oklahoma began Monday in Pittsburg County District Court in McAlester. Attorneys for the families of the five victims gathered in the downtown courthouse as did those lawyers representing Texas-based National …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission meets Tuesday morning to consider at least three public utility division matters. One is a request by CenturyTel of Northwest Arkansas to make an interconnection agreement with CSC Wireless doing business as Altice Mobile. Two others pertain to Empire District of Kansas for a tariff modification. The meeting begins at 9:30 …
Jenks legislator Lonnie Sims is pushing for support of his bill designed to help Oklahomans in the event of future major floods like the 2019 Arkansas River flood. The Republican Representative introduced House Bill 2776, the Oklahoma Hazard Mitigation Assessment District Act. It provides the framework for residents of each county to elect and establish a …
A U.S. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on Tuesday will focus on a bipartisan bill to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons. Oklahoma Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin is a member of the Environment and Climate Change subcommittee and will consider H.R. 5544. The measure tackling the coolant that is a powerful contributor to climate …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and others on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold a hearing this week to mark up the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The hearing is part of the 90-day countdown for Congress to approve or reject the deal. The Environment and Public Works Committee is one of several Senate …