A new report by the Texas Grassroots Network claims the state is home to some of the worst methane pollution and ozone smog in the country. The report, entitled “Oil and Gas Pollution’s Impacts on Texas Families” charged Texas lacks meaningful standards for detecting and repairing leaks. “Each day, oil and gas activities across the …
Even with oil prices in the $45 range, oil and gas developers aren’t backing off from paying high prices to drill on land in Oklahoma’s two big oil plays, the STACK and the SCOOP. As The Oklahoman reported this week, two companies recently paid more than $1 million each to do drilling in Kingfisher and …
There’s good reason ONEOK announced this week a $130 million plan to expand its natural gas and oil gathering pipeline systems in Oklahoma’s STACK—–the STACK is busy. Witness the completion reports indicated in OK Energy Today on Tuesday. All seven well completions came in the STACK. While they weren’t the monster wells of a thousand-plus …
Like those who say congress doesn’t see beyond the Beltway in Washington, D.C., a Guthrie legislator is critical of his own GOP colleagues for not seeing beyond the state capitol. “The decision to vote on the gas tax increase demonstrated the Republicans’ inability to see beyond the artificial bubble that surrounds the capitol,” wrote Rep. …
Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin has joined forces with Texas Democratic Rep. Gene Green in introducing a bill to expand cross-border energy infrastructure. The two sided up to introduce H.R. 2883, the Promoting Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure Act which is meant to encourage and promote the construction of energy infrastructure across border lines with North American …
Oil companies and wind energy firms with operations in Oklahoma are among those that helped make up President Trump’s fortune and they are listed in a 98-page financial disclosure report released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. The report shows at least $1.4 billion in assets and a long list of firms he either …
ONEOK, Inc. announced Monday plans for $130 million in an expansion of its Mid-Continent natural gas liquids gathering system to better serve Oklahoma’s wildly-growing STACK oil play. Backed by a long-term contract with a subsidiary of EnLink Midstream Partners, LP and EnLink Midsream LLC, the expansions will help handle expected volume growth in the play …
Exxon Mobil’s announced plans to move 1,600 of its XTO Energy subsidiary’s employees from Fort Worth to the Houston area. Reports indicate 1,200 employees will make the move in mid-2018 and another 400 will be transferred in 2020. Only about 350 XTO Energy workers will stay in Fort Worth. Workers got the news on Friday …
An open season for committed crude oil pipeline capacity from the Delaware Basin in Texas to Cushing, Oklahoma has been announced by a subsidiary of Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. The company said the Pipeline will originate at Conan Station in Loving County, Texas which is located between El Paso and Midland-Odessa. The line will …
New York based Hess Corporation announced Monday it has sold $600 million in assets in the Permian Basin to Occidental Petroleum Corporation. The sale was effective June 1 and proceeds will be used to fund the company’s strong growth opportunities. The assets included holdings in the Seminole Gas Processing plant in Texas, the West Bravo …