The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments is preparing for driver-less cars…..those known as “autonomous vehicles.” It plans a Dec. 4 workshop in Oklahoma City entitled “Driving Toward the Future: Preparing Central Oklahoma for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.” In announcing the workshop, ACOG said it has been planning for and responding to evolving vehicle technologies. “Autonomous …
A Houston oil and gas waste management company has opened a new operation in the Permian Basin. Milestone Environmental Services announced the operation is 25 miles south of Midland on State Highway 349 on a 20-acre site. The company is initially accepting drilling wastestreams including water-based mud and oil-based mud along with some completion and …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is releasing more information about the fracking that’s being blamed for small earthquakes around Yukon. Citizen Energy, an exploration company based in Tulsa cut back the volume as much as 50 percent on several stages of the hydraulic fracturing process. Matt Skinner, a spokesman with the Corporation Commission told News 9’s …
While the death of an oilfield worker near Watonga, Oklahoma is under investigation, OSHA announced it reached a settlement with a Texas company over the death of a worker last spring. The agreement with Marshall Pottery, Inc. located in Marshall, Texas includes a penalty of $545,160 after an assistant plant manager died last April when …
The oilfield accident that killed a 36-year old worker on Tuesday in Blaine county remains under investigation by the Blaine County Sheriff’s Office. Undersheriff David Robertson indicated it happened at a Devon Energy well site located along County Road 2520 and a quarter mile south of County Road 840 west of Watonga. It occurred as …
Repairs have been made and oil is flowing once again on the Keystone Pipeline where an oil spill dumped 5,000 barrels of oil two weeks ago in South Dakota. TransCanada Corporation indicated the repair and restart plans won approval from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. The company plans operations at a reduced pressure …
Yet another study is blaming the oil and gas industry for earthquakes. this time, it’s in Texas and the research was published in the journal Science Advances. The researchers were led by Beatrice Magnani, a seismologist at Southern Methodist University according to a story in Newsweek magazine. Researchers were attempting to understand whether the quakes …
Another big export sale is coming from Harold Hamm and company. Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources indicated it plans another major international sale of Bakken crude oil. But the company isn’t offering any clue as to who the buyer will be. It will be the second international sale of oil. The first was announced in October …
No word how this might affect the Purcell exploration company that last summer won a huge oil-drilling contract with Venezuela, but the country has named a new head of the struggling state oil company. President Nicolas Maduro named National Guard Maj. Gen. Manuel Quevedo the new president of PDVSA and the country’s minister of oil. …
While U.S. Sen. James Lankford’s latest “Federal Fumbles” report lambasted some federal projects as being a waste of taxpayer’s money, the report also included praise for efforts of agencies to save money. In an interview with OK Energy Today a day after he released his third such report, the Republican Senator said it included “touchdowns …
