The Denver-based Crusoe Energy Systems company has announced its flare mitigation operations have expanded into several more northern states with oil and gas operations. The firm’s Digital Flare Mitigation systems were already operational in Colorado, North Dakota and Wyoming. But the company has agreed to provide up to ten more systems in Montana, Wyoming and …
Total Safety, the world’s leading provider of integrated safety technologies and solutions, announced that it acquired Sprint Safety, a national safety service provider to U.S. customers with 5 locations and approximately 200 employees. Total has nearly 3,300 employees including those in Oklahoma City and Duncan, Oklahoma. Its operations involve oil and gas, petrochemical and refining …
The Navajo Nation is in the process of expanding its coal-mining operations with the more than $50 million purchase of the assets of the bankrupt Cloud Peak Energy company in Wyoming. Cloud Peak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the Navajo Transitional Energy Company, LCC is the winning bidder of the firm’s assets including three …
The new EPIC pipeline designed to move crude oil from the Permian Basin to the Gulf Coast refineries has begun delivering crude to several terminals in Corpus Christi and Ingleside, Texas. The delivery began in Crane, Texas and the new pipeline has the capability of moving up to 400,000 thousand barrels of oil a …
Central Kansas was shaken Friday morning by a 4.2 magnitude earthquake that knocked items from store shelves in Hutchinson. It was followed by a Friday night aftershock that measured 3.0 magnitude. KWCH TV reported that several Hutchinson businesses had cleanup on their agendas Friday after a 4.2-magnitude earthquake shakes the Reno County community. At Egbert …
Oklahoma continues to see a decline in the number of active oil and gas rigs as the latest figures from Baker Hughes Co. show 85 active rigs, down one from a week ago. A year earlier, the state had 140 active rigs. Nationally, the count increased by one to reach 935 rigs, down 122 …
Employment in Oklahoma’s energy sector apparently increased from June to July this summer but it also dropped compared to July of 2018. The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission released the state’s latest jobless figures on Friday showing Oklahoma’s unemployment rate remained at 3.2 percent in July, same as the rate in June. Out of a labor …
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality has announced that the boil order for the Valliant Public Works Authority, located in McCurtain County, has been lifted. The water is now safe for human consumption. The order to boil water was issued due to the presence of E. coli. State and federal regulations require that customers be notified …
The workers at Comanche Electric were honored by the Municipal Electric Systems of Oklahoma (MESO). Comanche placed first in the MESO’s annual Electric Safety Competition for 2018 in the category for cities with under 10,000 population. The award is based on Comanche Electric’s “no lost of work time,” this means there was no reports of …
The Storage Tank Advisory Council of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission will meet Tuesday to discuss proposed new rules. An announcement by the Commission indicated the rules are those proposed by the Petroleum Storage Tank Division. The meeting will be Tuesday, August 20 at 2 p.m. in the Corporation Commission’s Public Utilities Department Conference room, room …