The Oklahoma Department of Mines plans a public hearing this week on proposed 2018 regulatory amendments focusing on training and safety requirements of underground coal mining. The hearing will be held Jan. 17 at two sites: at 2 p.m. at the ODM Offices, 2915 N. Classen Blvd in Oklahoma City and at 6 p.m. …
Oklahoma City’s Devon Energy Corp. will release its fourth-quarter and full-year 2017 results next month. The company says it will make the results known on Tuesday, Feb. 20 after the close of U.S. financial markets. Results will be available on the company website at www.devonenergy.com.
The latest rig counts in Oklahoma and across the U.S. showed growth in the past week. Oklahoma’s count of oil and gas rigs grew by 3 to reach 121 while the national count was up 15 to 939. In the past week, the U.S. oil rig count grew by 10 to reach 752 while the …
“It has been one hell of a roller coaster ride.” Oilman T-Boone Pickens on close of his oil trading operations. At age 89, oilman T. Boone Pickens apparently figures he has seen and experienced it all in his days of investment in the oil and gas industry. Riding the highs and surviving the lows. Giving …
Nearly 10 months after hundreds of thousands of acres of land in northwest Oklahoma and southern Kansas and the Texas Panhandle were burned in wildfires, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico introduced the Wildfire Regulatory Relief Act. The fires burned more than 1,200 square miles in Oklahoma and Kansas. …
Democrats in the Oklahoma State Senate got their committee assignments this week for their caucus. And that included those named to various energy-related committee. Sen. John Sparks, Democratic leader made the announcement. “Our members come from a variety of backgrounds—education, business, agriculture, first responders, military, mental health and the law—and that real world experience serves …
At least nine energy industry associations including those representing oil and natural gas reacted positively this week to the action of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposed rulemaking on grid resiliency pricing in the nation’s bulk power system. The groups included the Advanced Energy Economy, American Council on Renewable Energy, American Petroleum Institute, American Wind …
The state government budget crisis got the attention of a group of Oklahoma business, civic and community leaders who announced this week a plan to do something about it. Calling themselves “nonpartisan” the Step Up Oklahoma members called for reform and revenue measures to eliminate abuse and waste and at the same time raise money …
The Director of the Muskogee City-County Port Authority warned the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee this week a critical backlog of maintenance is growing along the 445-mile stretch of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. Scott Robinson was among a handful who testified during a committee hearing into “America’s Water Infrastructure Needs and …
Under the topic of “it’s almost too good to be true,” you have to read what drivers in Oregon are complaining about—-having to pump their own gasoline! Not a joke! Beginning Jan. 1, a new state law took effect ‘allowing’ drivers in counties with less than 40,000 people to fill up their cars and trucks …
