The giant spring-fed Balmorhea State Park swimming pool in far West Texas is back open after $2 million in repairs of damages that some once blamed on nearby oil and gas drilling. The Balmorhea State Park Solomon Springs pool reopened this past week after being closed for months while repairs were made. It is the …
One of the country’s largest renewable energy projects—the Grain Belt Express transmission line has won approval from Missouri regulators. The Missouri Public Service Commission reversed its stand on the $2.3 billion project that will carry wind-powered electricity 780 miles from western Kansas, across Missouri and Illinois to Indiana. The project had twice been rejected by …
A new director of the Oklahoma Real Estate Commission has been named. Sherry Kueffler, a former longtime investigator at the Commission got the promotion after a decision by Commission members. She had served as acting executive director since December 2018. Kueffler started working for the commission as an investigator in 1999 and was named deputy …
After Chesapeake Energy’s management team received hundreds of thousands of shares earlier this month, members report the sales of shares in the company. In a required filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, CEO Robert D. Lawler reported the sale of 147,834 shares at $3.16 each. He still owns 5,033,298 shares in the company. …
After 20 years of doing business in Malaysia, Arkansas-based Murphy Oil is getting out and selling its two subsidiaries in the country in a more than $2 billion deal. The company headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas announced the sale of Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd. and Murphy Sarawak Oil Co., Ltd to a subsidiary …
The board of directors of Devon Energy Corp. announced that Ann G. Fox and Keith O. Rattie have been nominated to stand for election to the board at the company’s annual meeting of stockholders on June 5. Fox, 42, is the president and chief executive officer of Nine Energy Service Inc., a Houston-based oilfield services …
Crude oil prices topped $60 a barrel this week for the first time in nearly four months. Prices rose Wednesday after the government revealed figures showing how the American stockpiles of crude oil and refined fuels took a nose-dive last week. West Texas Intermediate crude futures settled 80 cents higher at $59.83 per barrel after …
Whoa! How about the $290,000 bill the Army wants to charge an environmental organization to do search for its Freedom of Information Act request? It’s not unusual to get a small fee for some FOIA requests and usually, members of the media can and often get their search fees waived. But not in thee case …
While a second California jury has ruled Roundup weed killer caused cancer and is in the process of determining damages, a handful of Oklahomans who also sued the company await their cases to move forward. It was a unanimous ruling by a jury in San Francisco federal court as it determined Germany’s Bayer company, …
Equipment failure in New Mexico resulted in a record low next-day natural gas price at the Waha hub in West Texas. The failure stranded natural gas in the Permian basin and spot prices at the hub collapsed to an average of just 12 cents per million British thermal units for Wednesday. Prices fell belong the …