A small independent oil and gas company headquartered in Purcell, Oklahoma is one of three companies that won bids to explore the world’s biggest oil reserves—-those in Venezuela. It has the energy world wondering how they did it. And maybe why. When word leaked recently that Horizontal Well Drillers LLC, whose chief executive officer is …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has asked for reduced operations of wastewater injection wells following last week’s surge of earthquakes around Edmond. The directive applies to wells operating within a 10-mile radius of the earthquakes that caused damaged last week. The reduction will be by 95%. Three of the largest wells, the Dahl, Wishon and McCoon, …
The Oklahoma Supreme Court now must decide on the three lawsuits filed in challenge of three new taxes and one tax deduction change following oral arguments Tuesday morning. Justices held three separate hearings on the suits and listened to 3 hours of arguments against the taxes. Attorney James Naifeh, representing GOP Gubernatorial candidate Gary Richardson …
Even as the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments to some newly-created taxes on electric and hybrid vehicles, a new lawsuit was waiting in the wings. It was on Monday when the Oklahoma Sierra Club filed suit, challenging a registration fee on the electric vehicles. The suit is asking the court to rule House …
Houston’s Waste Management has opened its 100th CNG fueling station nationally this week in Oklahoma City. It held a ceremony Tuesday morning in the city as it dedicated the fueling station for the nearly 100 CNG-operated trash trucks refuel every day. Waste Management operates an estimated 6,000 natural gas trucks, the largest heavy-duty fleet of …
Mustang Rep. Leslie Osborn is the latest to enter the race to become Oklahoma’s next State Labor Commissioner. The Republican legislator announced Wednesday she is running for the Republican nomination to be decide in 2018. “We have serious challenges in Oklahoma,” said Osborn in announcing her candidacy. “I am convinced we can meet them. As …
Edmond’s EK Energy and Exploration Company was the high bidder for the June sale of mineral rights to 880 acres of Blaine county land at a price of nearly $17 million dollars. The June 20 auction was handled by Farm Service Company of Chickasha where spokesman Cody J. White indicated the sale involved 5 …
Critics of TransCanada Corp.’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline are getting their chance this week to grill developers as they go before the Nebraska Public Service Commission. An evidentiary hearing on the pipeline is underway and already there have been sharp and pointed exchanges between witnesses and attorneys for those fighting the pipeline. As E & …
Two American Indian tribes are telling a federal court the Dakota Access pipeline, the one targeted by Oklahomans and other environmental activists last year must be shut down while the Trump administration reconsiders its environmental impact. Attorneys for the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes filed a brief this week with the U.S. District …
The resurgence of oil and gas exploration in Oklahoma has turned out to be a surprising source of new revenue for the University of Oklahoma. As Bloomberg News reported recently, the university has been the recipient of millions of dollars from mineral rights on land given to the school decades ago. Until recently, the mineral …