Enable Midstream Partners turns to one of its own to fill the empty Chief Financial Officer position. The Board of Directors announced Monday it had named John Laws as Executive Vice President, CFO, and Treasurer. Laws has worked for Enable since 2010….
SandRidge Money Problems Go Beyond Oklahoma
With more than $3 billion debt, Oklahoma City-based SandRidge Energy is not only battling Oklahoma regulators in the fight over saltwater injection wells but tumbling oil prices and the impact on the viability of the company. Its cutback in oil a…
Environment Committee to Consider Markups
Here is what members of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee members will be working on this week. Senator Jim Inhofe is chairman of the committee that will meet Wednesday to consider the Bipartisan Sporstmen’s Act of 2015 or S. 659….
Tulsa Businesswoman Named to State Turnpike Authority
The newest member of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority is Dana Weber of Tulsa, named recently by Governor Mary Fallin to replace Kevin Hem who resigned in November 2015.
Weber will begin serving immediately on the Authority. She is president and chief e…
More Oil Wells—More Wastewater in Alfalfa County
The northern Oklahoma region where earthquakes have become a daily part of the routine is seeing more and more oil and gas wells completed and made operational.
A check of the well completion reports published on OK Energy Today showed four more…
Crude Tumbles as Sanctions Against Iran are Lifted
Just what the oil and gas industry in Oklahoma didn’t need—the huge release of Iran’s oil reserves on the world market. The lifting of U.S. sanctions over the weekend as part of the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran immediately prom…
Iran Prepares to Join Global Markets Sending Crude Below $30 on Friday
The imminent return of Iran’s oil to global markets sent crude prices below $30 on Friday. February West Texas Intermediate crude lost $1.78 to settle at $29.42 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On the London ICE Futures Exchange, March Bre…
Williams Board of Directors Emphasizes Commitment to Merge with ETE
Responding to the recent reports of the deal between Williams Companies and Energy Transfer Equity L.P. as shaky, Williams Board of Directors underlined their commitment to the deal. Calling the media reports market speculation, the Board made the move…
Packed Hearing on Earthquakes and Injection Wells
So many Oklahomans attended Friday’s state capitol earthquake hearing that it had to be moved from a meeting room to the House chambers. Representative Richard Morrissette’s hearing provided an avenue for angry Oklahomans to ask questions and dem…
South of the Border for Aubrey McClendon’s OKC Company
Oklahoma City-based American Energy Partners, LP has reached out and signed an exploration agreement with YPF, an energy firm considered to be the main oil producer in Argentina. Under the agreement signed by Aubrey K. McClendon of American Energ…