A new natural gas processing plant in Colorado has been commissioned by Oklahoma City’s SandRidge Energy Inc. as the company announced it will help the firm in a part of Colorado where there are no natural gas pipelines. Advantage Midstream LLC based in Dallas will build the plant next to with a previously announced gas …
BNSF Railway (BNSF) has premiered its newest logistics center to customers, local officials and community members at an event in Moore, Okla., near Oklahoma City. Logistics Center Oklahoma City is located within the city limits of Oklahoma City and Moore and is designed to accommodate manifest and unit train customers in addition to a site …
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced that the boil order for the Sardis Lake Water Authority, located in Pushmataha County, and the Talihina Public Works Authority, located in LeFlore County, has been lifted. The water is now safe for human consumption. The order to boil water was issued due to the presence of E. coli. …
This week’s announcement of a newly-formed partnership between Valiant Midstream LLC and Antioch Energy focusing on natural gas gathering operations in eastern Oklahoma resulted in a major step for Valiant Midstream. “Valiant Midstream is now the third largest midstream company headquartered in the OKC area and this recent deal and project will add significant growth …
While the nation’s oil and gas rig count slipped by 13 in the past week, the number of active rigs in Oklahoma stayed at 140. Figures from Baker Hughes Co. and the Red Top Rig Report showed the national count fell to 1,044. The number of oil rigs fell by 9 to 860 while the …
While Oklahoma City’s Devon and other top producers in the Permian Basin continued their race to produce more oil, it’s resulted in in a huge jump in housing around Midland, Texas. A report by the Permian Basin Board of Realtors indicated the average price for a home in July had risen to $355,4569. …
Oklahoma’s efforts to target environmental protesters at pipelines and other energy projects are being copied in numerous other states. Witness the success of the new law in putting an end to efforts of Native American protesters to stage a Dakota Access Pipeline style demonstration at the Diamond Pipeline that was completed last year. The law …
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 …