Schlumberger Limited, the company with operations in Oklahoma announced this week it joined with Production Plus Energy Services to create something they call Joint Venture Entities. The purpose is to develop the HEAL System technology and business. The creation was actually effective at the end of May and JV started functioning worldwide as HEAL Systems. …
Researchers at the Oklahoma Geological Survey, Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma were among those who contributed to a new report that studied the Pawnee earthquake last fall. The 5.8 magnitude quake in September 2016 was the largest recorded seismic event in Oklahoma and led to the report in Seismological Research Letters, an …
Forty-three years after locating in Broken Arrow, the Alfa Laval Air-Cooled Exchangers company is expanding. Known historically as ACE, the firm announced this week its expansion, indicating a “competence center” will be located on land adjoining the existing operation. The center will house operations for the Alfa Laval Spiral Heat Exchanger range. “Alfa Laval’s …
Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources Inc. has brought in another 1,000-plus barrel a day well in Oklahoma’s STACK. This time, the well was in Blaine County as indicated in the completion reports published by OK Energy Today. The Mowery, located at 36 15N 11W which is northeast of the community of greenfield, produced 1,071 barrels a …
Even as vertical well drillers pressed their opposition in the just-concluded Oklahoma legislature against a bill to give more power to horizontal well operators, some had been in court for months. Now the battle by Almont Energy LLC and TLS Oil and Gas Inc. in its lawsuit against Newfield Exploration Mid-Continent Inc. has been settled …
A new report by the Texas Grassroots Network claims the state is home to some of the worst methane pollution and ozone smog in the country. The report, entitled “Oil and Gas Pollution’s Impacts on Texas Families” charged Texas lacks meaningful standards for detecting and repairing leaks. “Each day, oil and gas activities across the …
Even with oil prices in the $45 range, oil and gas developers aren’t backing off from paying high prices to drill on land in Oklahoma’s two big oil plays, the STACK and the SCOOP. As The Oklahoman reported this week, two companies recently paid more than $1 million each to do drilling in Kingfisher and …
There’s good reason ONEOK announced this week a $130 million plan to expand its natural gas and oil gathering pipeline systems in Oklahoma’s STACK—–the STACK is busy. Witness the completion reports indicated in OK Energy Today on Tuesday. All seven well completions came in the STACK. While they weren’t the monster wells of a thousand-plus …
Like those who say congress doesn’t see beyond the Beltway in Washington, D.C., a Guthrie legislator is critical of his own GOP colleagues for not seeing beyond the state capitol. “The decision to vote on the gas tax increase demonstrated the Republicans’ inability to see beyond the artificial bubble that surrounds the capitol,” wrote Rep. …
Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin has joined forces with Texas Democratic Rep. Gene Green in introducing a bill to expand cross-border energy infrastructure. The two sided up to introduce H.R. 2883, the Promoting Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure Act which is meant to encourage and promote the construction of energy infrastructure across border lines with North American …
