The oilfield accident that killed a 36-year old worker on Tuesday in Blaine county remains under investigation by the Blaine County Sheriff’s Office. Undersheriff David Robertson indicated it happened at a Devon Energy well site located along County Road 2520 and a quarter mile south of County Road 840 west of Watonga. It occurred as …
Repairs have been made and oil is flowing once again on the Keystone Pipeline where an oil spill dumped 5,000 barrels of oil two weeks ago in South Dakota. TransCanada Corporation indicated the repair and restart plans won approval from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. The company plans operations at a reduced pressure …
Yet another study is blaming the oil and gas industry for earthquakes. this time, it’s in Texas and the research was published in the journal Science Advances. The researchers were led by Beatrice Magnani, a seismologist at Southern Methodist University according to a story in Newsweek magazine. Researchers were attempting to understand whether the quakes …
Another big export sale is coming from Harold Hamm and company. Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources indicated it plans another major international sale of Bakken crude oil. But the company isn’t offering any clue as to who the buyer will be. It will be the second international sale of oil. The first was announced in October …
No word how this might affect the Purcell exploration company that last summer won a huge oil-drilling contract with Venezuela, but the country has named a new head of the struggling state oil company. President Nicolas Maduro named National Guard Maj. Gen. Manuel Quevedo the new president of PDVSA and the country’s minister of oil. …
While U.S. Sen. James Lankford’s latest “Federal Fumbles” report lambasted some federal projects as being a waste of taxpayer’s money, the report also included praise for efforts of agencies to save money. In an interview with OK Energy Today a day after he released his third such report, the Republican Senator said it included “touchdowns …
State Corporation Commission investigators indicate they believe a hydraulic fracturing operation has caused small earthquakes in the past few days around the city of Yukon. “The quakes we’ve had in the Yukon area over the past few days are clustered around the McWhirter well, where Citizen Energy is doing a hydraulic fracturing operation,” explained Matt …
The Washington, D-C based nonprofit watchdog group, Campaign for Accountability is taking State Attorney General Mike Hunter to court over a sealed audit of suspected criminal activity involving cleanup operations at the Tar Creek Superfund site in northeast Oklahoma. The lawsuit, CV-2017-2335 was filed in Oklahoma County District Court against Hunter and State Auditor and …
Tulsa-based Unit Corporation announced that Les Austin has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the company effective immediately. He succeeds David t. Merrill who was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in August 2017. The 51-year old Austin has more than 23 years of energy finance and leadership experience and previously …
U.S. Sen. James Lankford has released his third “Federal Fumbles: 100 ways the government dropped the ball” when it came to what he considers to be wasteful spending. Whether it’s a government grant for an art class focusing on climate change, or a doggie Hamlet project in New Hampshire, the Senator is bashing the government …