ConocoPhillips plans to release its fourth-quarter 2019 financial and operating results on Feb. 4, 2020. The Houston-based company said the results will be made available before the market opens on that day. Company leadership will follow up with a conference call webcast on the same day at 11 a.m. central time. The company’s third-quarter 2019 …
Deadline arrives for BLM workers in move to Colorado
Thursday was a deadline for about 200 federal workers to decide if they will move from Washington, D.C. into the Bureau of Land Management’s new official national headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado. The Department of Interior has yet to indicate how many of the high-level staffers will make the move but media reports suggest few …
Oil production up in Texas but well permits and completions are down
A new report from the Railroad Commission of Texas shows oil production in the state totaled 96.97 million barrels of oil and 702.42 billion cubic feet of natural gas in September. Production is up but the number of completed wells is down. It compares to crude oil production of 85.10 million barrels a day in …
Noble Energy adds new member to board of directors
Houston’s Noble Energy, Inc. added another member to its board of directors. Martha B. Wyrsch, 61, recently served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of California-based Sempra Energy. She was also President of North America of Vestas American Wind Technology, a wind turbine manufacturing and services company. From 2007 until 2008, Ms. Wyrsch served …
Newfield locates ‘sweet spot’ in Oklahoma’s STACK and comes up with big producers
Houston’s Newfield Exploration Mid-Con Inc. can now boast of 5 wells on a single pad with production of more than 4,000 barrels of oil a day in Oklahoma’s STACK play. And it’s found quite a honey hole southwest of Kingfisher. The company added two more completion reports this week to three already filed last week …
More rigs going up in Oklahoma
Energy companies are still getting permits to drill for oil and gas in Oklahoma. The latest includes two permits to Camino Natural Resources to drill wells in Canadian County. The Geronimo 1207 #6-5 WH will be drilled at 31 1N 7W which is at the north edge of El Reno. Camino’s second well is …
EPA’s IG not finished with former Inhofe aide
Oklahoman Ryan Jackson, now the chief of staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has dodged one bullet from the EPA’s internal watchdog. But he could face another after he refused to reveal where he obtained a scientist’s congressional testimony. Jackson, who spent nearly 15 years with U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe took over as chief …
Reps split votes over climate change act
Oklahoma’s delegation in the U.S. House split its votes this week in a vote on the Tribal Coastal Resiliency Act, a measured aimed at boosting the resiliency of the nation’s coasts and Great Lakes to the impacts of climate change. The measure passed on a 262-151 vote with Republican Rep. Tom Cole and Democrat Rep. …
Fight expected in Colorado over new oil and gas emissions rules
Leaders of the oil and gas industry are expected to clash next week with environmentalists in Colorado as the state draws up new rules for toxic and planet-warming gases emitted from oil and gas operations. The rules are the intent of Gov. Jared Polis who wants to increase the frequency and scope of oil and …
Energy news in brief
** Tulsa’s NGL Energy Partners LP is attending the Wells Fargo 18th Annual Midstream and Utility Symposium in New York, New York , which concludes tomorrow. Members of NGL’s management team will be participating in a series of one-on-one meetings with members of the investment community at the conference. ** Kansas City’s Tallgrass Energy, LP , through its …









