As a record number of Americans plan a long July 4th holiday, those in Oklahoma will face an average price of $2.57 a gallon for gasoline. AAA predicts 46.9 million Americans will take a trip of 50 miles or more for the holiday, extending the July 4th holiday from Friday to Wednesday. That’s an increase …
A second phase of a pipeline built to carry natural gas liquids out of the Permian Basin to the Gulf Coast has been completed by EPIC Midstream Holdings, LP. The company said Phase Two of the EPIC Natural Gas Liquids pipeline runs from DLK Black River Midstream to Benedum Texas. It means more than 200 …
West Texas is the latest where a small earthquake was recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS says a quake measuring 2.7 magnitude hit around 12:50 in the morning on Thursday. The epicenter was only 2 miles from Pecos, Texas and 7 miles from Barstow. It was fairly close to the surface as the …
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter is among those commending a federal judge who threw out lawsuits by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland blaming five major energy companies for causing climate change. Hunter and 14 other attorneys general filed a brief in support of the motion by the companies in April to dismiss the …
The Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association has awarded its annual Partner Award to Halliburton Energy Services. “Time and again, Halliburton has answered the call, and this year they’ve become the first two-time recipient of our Partner Award,” said Avery Smith, OIPA Vice President of External Affairs. “They respond every time they’re needed,” Smith said. “They …
The two women in the Republican runoff for Oklahoma Labor Commissioner have about two months before voters choose one to be their party’s candidate. One is running largely on the name of her murdered husband who was Labor Commissioner at the time of his death. The other is running mostly on her experience as a …
Two years after Halliburton Co. put a 48-acre Oak Park campus for sale in Houston, it’s been sold to a local private investment group. But the buyer and the price were not disclosed in this week’s announcement. JLL Capital Markets marketed the campus and worked with Oklahoma-based Williams and Williams which held an auction on …
With experts suggesting a shutdown of some drilling operations in the Permian Basin because of a shortage of pipelines to move oil and gas, a $2 billion new pipeline project has been announced by three energy firms. Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline LLC, EagleClaw Midstream Ventures, LLC and Apache Corporation announced this week intentions to build …
Shareholders have overwhelmingly approved a merger of Tallgrass Energy Partners, LLP and Tallgrass Energy GP, LP in Kansas City, firms that operate oil pipelines leading to Cushing, Oklahoma. It was a stock-for-unit merger transaction in which TallGrass Energy GP will acquire the nearly 47.6 million of Tallgrass Energy Partners common units held by the public. …
While Continental Resources of Oklahoma City unloaded some of its assets in the Bakken this week, a Denver, Colorado-based company has done the same thing. Samson Oil and Gas USA, Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samson Oil and gas Limited made a $40 million sale of its assets in the Williston Basin in North Dakota …