Fire investigators suspect fumes inside an empty truck tank caused the Sunday morning explosion that killed Travis Farley, 48 of Chickasha. The explosion happened while he was inside the empty tank at Canyon Well Service, 1610 SH 66 in El Reno around 7 a.m. Another worker had been in the vicinity but left the shop …
The brutal heat this week is challenging for anyone who works outdoors—farmers, oilfield hands, roofers and more. Temperatures climbed to 100 degrees or greater in the western part of Oklahoma while the heat indices ranged from a low of 98 in the Panhandle to 114 degrees degrees in eastern Oklahoma. Wednesday was filled with heat …
North Dakota’s oil and gas regulator says it will ask the federal government to block Washington state from enforcing a crude-by-rail law that could prevent as much as 200K bbl/day of Bakken crude from reaching Puget Sound refineries. The state law, which Gov. Inslee signed into law in May and will go into effect Jan. 1, prohibits …
Houston-based Solaris Water Midstream, LLC announced it has launched operations at its expanded Lobo Ranch Produced Water Recycling and Blending Center, a large-scale produced water recycling and non-potable water blending facility in Eddy County, New Mexico. Solaris Water also has started the development of its Bronco facility, an additional recycling and blending facility in Lea County, …
Four wells drilled on a single pad by Roan Resources produced nearly 2,000 barrels of oil a day in Grady County, Oklahoma according to completion reports filed this week. The Oklahoma City oil and gas firm reported the wells were drilled at 13 9N 6W at a site a few miles southeast of Tuttle. Their …
July 1st marked the start of a new budget year for the state government in Oklahoma and it includes nearly $2.8 million for rural floodcontrol dams and clean water. The State Senate website explained that the budget included $1.59 million to be spent to improve rural flood control dams. Another $500,000 is budgeted to maintain …
Employees of the Oklahoma Field Office of the federal Bureau of Land Management will soon find their national headquarters located in Grand Junction, Colorado and not Washington, D.C. The Bureau of Land Management Oklahoma Field Office manages 7.4 million acres of federally owned land and minerals in the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas. The …
The issue of PFAS or man-made chemicals has gained more and more attention on Capitol Hill. It is also one of the points that arose from the recent House approval of the National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 2500. POLITICO’s Morning Energy Report indicated Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee …
The Denver, Colorado-based Cimarex Energy has filed completion reports on a four well-single pad site that has combined crude oil production of more than 4,300 barrels a day in Oklahoma’s STACK play. The Lehman Com 7-11h wells are located several miles northeast of the Blaine County community of Greenfield and were drilled last year at …
The San Francisco electric vehicle charging station company Volta Charging announced the investment firm Energy Impact Partners is providing a $44 million loan to support expansion of the network. The company has nearly 700 charging stations in 10 states—none in Oklahoma and only 6 in Texas. It is largely a coastal company with more than …