Things are not as dry as they once were earlier in the summer in parts of Oklahoma as many oil patch workers will tell you. Rain fell Friday morning for the third straight morning in western and northern Oklahoma, helping relieve the dry conditions and filling farm ponds where water is used in fracking projects. …
Koch Methanol, one of the subsidiaries of Koch Ag and Energy Solutions out of Wichita, Kansas has acquired an indirect minority equity interest in a $1.85 billion methanol production facility under construction in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Koch made the agreement with Yuhuang Chemical Industries which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shandong Yuhuang Chemical …
With pipelines throughout Oklahoma and dozens of other states, Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. based in Dallas won federal approval for its Rover Pipeline in West Virginia, Ohiol and Pennsylvania. Approval came from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and it will allow for 100 percent of the long-haul contractual commitments on Rover to begin in a …
Former Oklahoma Congressman Jim Bridenstine was all smiles on Thursday as he hosted U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. Why wouldn’t he be? After all, now the head of NASA, Bridenstine had made returning man to the moon one of his goals and projects as he was considered to be the leader of the U.S. space …
Marathon Oil Company is reporting the completion of two wells, each producing more than a thousand barrels of oil daily, nearly 8 months after they were completed in Kingfisher County. Drilled at the same site about 12 miles southwest of the city of Kingfisher the largest is the Tan 1509-5-4-33mxh which had production of 1,673 …
Two Oklahoma City energy companies announced Thursday they had formed a partnership concerning their operations in eastern Oklahoma. Valiant Midstream LLC announced it has entered into a long-term, fee-based natural gas gathering and processing agreement with Antioch Energy LLC. Antioch’s dedication of more than 275,000 gross acres brings Valiant Midstream’s total acreage commitments in the …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe took to the floor of the Senate this week to commend the Trump Administration for attempting to change the Clean Power Plan, one created by former President Obama. He told those in the Senate that environmental critics of the President were wrong. Here are some of this comments or you …
By Congressman Markwayne Mullin Oklahoma’s families should be able to keep their lights on at a cost they can afford. As innovation drives how we produce energy from various sources, the most important piece to remember is that the consumer should be driving the supply and demand. I have always supported an “all-the-above” approach …
Oil marketing analyst Energy Security Analysis Inc. indicated this week that production growth is declining in the Permian Basin and it blames the lack of crude oil pipelines to move the product to the coast. ESAI’s evaluation showed while Permian basin operating costs fell 6 percent in the second quarter of the year, the overall …
First ConocoPhillips sold its San Juan basin assets for $3 billion. Now BP American Production Co. is considering pulling out of the same region and the economic impact in Southwest Colorado and northern New Mexico won’t be good. And BP plans to sell its assets in the Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. …