Denver, Colorado has become the latest city around the world to require more of a “green” effort by those putting up big buildings. A ballot initiative mandating environment-friendly roofs in the city won approval recently with 54 percent voting for the issue. It means Denver will require rooftop gardens or solar panels on new buildings …
A report by the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association shows Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy is the state’s second largest oil producer. The report showed that Devon Energy’s 2016 oil production in New Mexico totaled 16,677,259 barrels of oil out of the state’s total oil production of 136 million barrels of oil. The company tied …
An analysis by the Denver Post shows the High Plains Aquifer is drying up much faster than experts have thought. The Aquifer stretches from South Dakota and Nebraska through eastern Colorado, Wyoming, Western Kansas, New Mexico, the Oklahoma Panhandle and the Texas Panhandle. The newspaper analyzed federal information showing the Aquifer “shrank twice as fast …
A plan by Homeland Security to carry out a chemical and biological test early in 2018 at the site of the former Chilocco Indian School in northern Oklahoma is being opposed by area residents as well as a southern Kansas Congressman. The Homeland Security Department recently advertised its “low level outdoor release” project in a …
A $1 billion pipeline from Oklahoma’s Kingfisher County south to Louisiana is planned by Houston-based Cheniere Energy. The 200-mile Midship Pipeline will move natural gas to a south Louisiana liquefied natural gas terminal. There, the gas will be exported overseas. The gas will primarily come out of the STACK and SCOOP fields to the company’s …
The Oklahoma City-based Oil-Law Records Corporation has been sold to a Texas firm. Austin’s Drillinginfo has acquired the 62-year old Oklahoma company which provides permits to drill and completion reports for law firms and oil companies. The eleven employees of Oil-Law Records will keep their jobs and so will company CEO J. Brad McPherson. Drillinginfo …
Operators of the little Purcell drilling company that won a huge contract to drill for oil in Venezuela contend they can handle the operation and plan to begin moving rigs to the troubled company in the coming six to nine months. It’s what CNBC reports after spending weeks attempting to contact the owners of Horizontal …
Democrats cried “corporate welfare” but the Oklahoma House voted Thursday in favor of a measure to give an exemption to big trucks, trailers, cargo vehicles and even oil-field frac tanks from the State’s new automobile sales tax. The vote was 60 to 20 as HB 1074 was sent to the State Senate. Rep. Bobby Cleveland, …
A new government report has been released stating that the herbicide glyphosate does not cause cancer and Sen. Jim Inhofe says it was long overdue. “The Agricultural Health Study confirms what we already knew—there is no link between glyphosate exposure and cancer,” said the Senator after the study was published by the National Institute of …
Those Texas landowners who went to court a few years ago to fight what they called a land grab by the federal government in a dispute over the Red River border have reached a settlement in the case. A Federal judge has signed off on the settlement with the Bureau of Land Management after it …