Land in Oklahoma won’t be included, the U.S. Department of Interior plans to hold the country’s largest oil and gas lease sale next month. The government plans to offer 77.3 million acres offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida for oil and gas exploration and development on March 21, 2018. The sale will include all …
An effort launched by the Sierra Club to target oil and gas production in a bid to stop earthquakes in eastern Kansas has been killed in a State House committee. House Bill 2641 would have put water limitations on new and existing wastewater injection wells in the state. The Sierra Club sponsored the measure following …
The Patterson Drilling company could be in store for another federal investigation following a Sunday night incident that left a worker injured at an oil-drilling rig near Piedmont. Patterson is the same company that owned the rig that blew up last month and killed 5 workers near the southeast Oklahoma town of Quinton. The Sunday …
A $600 million expansion has been announced by Google for its data center near Pryor in northeast Oklahoma. Executives with the company say it is part of a $2.5 billion plan to expand data centers in Oklahoma, Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee and Virginia. Google will construct a new four-story data center where already 400 people …
Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones is a Republican running for Governor. Yet in the past week, he attracted the support of the Democrats in the State House, Democrats who blocked the Step Up Oklahoma plan to hike taxes. How did he do it? Compromise he said in an interview with OK Energy Today. …
The oil and gas rig count in Oklahoma jumped by 5 in the past week to reach 123 while nationally, the count was unchanged and remained at 975. Baker Hughes Co. of Houston reported the U.S. added 7 oil rigs in the pat week to reach 798 while the number of gas rigs fell by …
The recent recommendation by an Administrative Law Judge at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission against pre-approval of PSO’s massive Panhandle wind farm indicates the utility could present serious challenges in going before the full commission. In other words, PSO could be going against the wind. As OK Energy Today reported earlier, Judge Mary Candler determined Public …
Tulsa-based Laredo Petroleum, Inc. announced it has started a $200 million share repurchase program. The board of directors approved the decision this week and indicating the timing, number and value of shares repurchased will be at the discretion of management and the board. It will also depend on market conditions, business conditions and the trading …
LINN Energy’s announced it’s selling its west Texas properties for $119.5 million as it continues with divesting some of its properties in the wake of bankruptcy. The sale includes 28,000 net acres with 2017 net production of 6,300 BOE/d. The Houston, Texas firm, with big operations in Oklahoma did not disclose the identity of the …
Regulators at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey no doubt are scratching their heads over the series of earthquakes that rattled northwest Oklahoma this week. Most happened around the town of Waynoka in Woods County where some of the first actions were taken a few years ago by the state …