Nearly six years after the 80-year old bridge linking the cities of Purcell and Lexington at the Canadian river became endangered, the state prepares to dedicate a new replacement. Ceremonies will be held Friday at the $38 million US-77/SH39 bridge that is four lanes and will officially be opened to traffic. They come after a …
Former Oklahoma City oil and gas broker Robert Samuel Kerr IV avoided prison this week when he was sentenced in U.S. District Court for conspiring with two others to commit wire fraud. Kerr, 38 was sentenced to four years probation and ordered to pay $30,000 restitution after he pleaded guilty in November 2017 to one …
Oklahoma City-based Impact Energy Partners LLC announced it has finalized the acquisition of 100 operated properties along with 23,479 net acres in northern Oklahoma where it is expanding operations. The acquisition was in Grant, Garfield and Alfalfa counties which make up northwest Oklahoma’s Mississippi Lime field. The purchases followed Impact Energy’s two previous purchases of …
Oil and gas companies Devon Energy and Newfield Exploration each reported big finds in Oklahoma’s STACK play. Devon saw nearly 3,800 barrels of oil a day production from two wells drilled on a single pad near Watonga in Blaine County. The Chipmunk wells, located about 1.5 miles northwest of Watonga on Airport Road were drilled …
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt calls it his Top Ten cabinet tour–a chance for Oklahomans to tell the state’s leaders about issues they want the government to focus on, whether it be energy, agriculture, transportation or more. He plans to hold four public meetings in the closing months of 2019 and said there will be more …
Kingfisher County, right in the heart of the STACK oil and gas play in Oklahoma experienced two strong earthquakes on Wednesday. The first measured 3.4 magnitude and the epicenter was west of Kingfisher. It struck around 5:30 p.m.. Three hours later, a 3.3 magnitude earthquake hit and the epicenter was southwest of the city of …
Scientists from SMU, The University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University found that the majority of faults underlying the Fort Worth Basin are as sensitive to forces that could cause them to slip as those that have hosted earthquakes in the past. The new study, published July 23rd by the journal Bulletin of the Seismological …
Shareholders in Tulsa-based ONEOK Inc. are getting an 89-cent a share dividend for the quarter. The board of directors at the company increased the dividend 2.5 cents a share to 89 cents resulting in an annualized dividend of $3.56 a share. The dividend will be payable Aug. 14, 2019 to shareholders of record at the …
Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas, the ranking Republican on the House Science and Technology Committee filed a bill this week to reauthorize the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. His bill, in the first stage of the legislative process would reauthorize ARPA for a five-year period with a gradual increase in funding every year until …
From the Miami News Record MIAMI — The LEAD Agency held one of its regular Tar Creek bike rides Saturday, July 20, but that didn’t deter those who are champions of the cleanup of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund site. “It was very hot, in fact, it was so hot we shortened part of …