The Oklahoma energy industry and its lobbyists know who they will be dealing with on energy topics and appropriations in the 2019 session of the state legislature. At least in the State Senate. Senator Greg Treat, president pro tempore-designate of the Senate announced his selections of Senate appropriations subcommittee chairs. Tulsa Republican Sen. Gary Stanislawski …
A Stillwater firm is taking truck transportation into the computer age and making money off it. As The Oklahoman reported this week, Quest RTS, a firm founded by Tony Payne, is helping trucking companies automate their dispatching operations. Payne developed new software called Land Traffic Control, a system that provides digital alerts to drivers through …
Pipeline giant Enbridge Inc. just got larger in a $3.3 billion deal to acquire Spectra Energy Partners LP. It’s a deal that will affect an eastern Oklahoma natural gas line owned by Spectra Energy but operated by Enbridge. Enbridge, Canada’s largest operator, made the proposal in May but it wasn’t accepted by unitholders until this …
At least two energy companies that have seen major success in their ventures in Oklahoma’s STACK play are pushing ahead in areas where they’ve found large producing wells. Devon Energy’s brought in some big wells in Blaine County and this week, it received permits to drill for three wells in the region. The three are …
At least one financial advising firm, The Motley Fool is suggesting the country’s next hottest oil producing region will be the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. This week, the Motley Fool explained its reasoning—that the Permian Basin production will slow in the coming year because of a lack of pipelines to move the product …
ConocoPhillips has a new general counsel, announcing the appointment of Baker Botts corporate transactional partner Kelly Brunetti Rose of Houston to the job. Prior to the appointment, Rose had represented ConocoPhillips and other major oil and gas companies in numerous billion-dollar mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and securities offering. Rose replaced Janet Langford Carrig who retired …
As he once campaigned for President against President Obama, Sen. John McCain refused to personally attack Obama the man. His policies yes. Obama himself? No. And after his weekend death, McCain was remembered fondly by Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe who had great environmental and political differences with the Arizona senator over the years. Still, …
Runoff races for Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner aren’t the only ones that state energy producers will watch closely on Tuesday. They know the state Labor Department can influence their industry. Cathy Costello and state Rep. Leslie Osborn are in the runoff for the Republican nomination and it has turned nasty in recent days with Osborn’s tv …
Bankruptcy and fraud in Texas has left some farmers and ranchers in North Dakota nearly helpless as more than three dozen gas wells sit idle on their land. At least 40 wells are not operational near the town of Buffalo, North Dakota. The wells were first drilled in 2006 by Spyglass Cedar Creek LP, a …
Another group named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by Energy Transfer Partners over the protests against its Dakota Access oil pipeline has been dismissed by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson in North Dakota dismissed the $1 billion lawsuit filed against Earth First, saying Dallas based Energy Transfer failed to …