Gasoline prices have dropped in the past two weeks since Hurricane Harvey hit south Texas with some Oklahoma City gasoline stations pumping it at $1.99 a gallon. GasBuddy.com reports those are the lowest prices in Oklahoma with a few convenience stores and stations selling it for $2.01 and $2.02 a gallon. In Tulsa, prices vary …
Tulsa-based Magellan Midstream is dealing with a nearly 500,000 gallon gasoline spill from two storage tanks along the Houston Ship Channel, the largest such spill resulting from Hurricane Harvey. The company confirmed the spill first reported last month was far larger than initially believed. Reports indicate the spill measure 10,988 barrels or more than …
Chesapeake Energy Corporation announced Tuesday the naming of Leslie S. Keating to the Board of Directors effective Sept. 11. She will serve as a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee. Keating will also stand for re-election at the 2018 annual meeting of shareholders according to the announcement. Keating is Executive Vice Presidentof …
Phillips 66 has contributed another $3 million to help victims of Hurricane Harvey in south Texas. The $3 million is on top of the $1 million initially donated by the company. The donation is being shared equally by the Rebuild Texas Fund, United Way of Greater Houston and the American Red Cross. The money will …
The City of Lawton is in the process of exploring for new water wells and apparently has located at least one potentially good site. The Lawton Constitution reports it is one of ten sites originally drilled by a consulting firm hired two years ago to find more water sources for the city. The contract with …
The latest lawsuit accusing more than two dozen energy companies of causing Oklahoma’s earthquakes has been transferred to Oklahoma City U.S. District Court. It is a continuation of a lawsuit filed Jan. 12, 2016 by Lisa Griggs and April Marler, residents of Logan County. The suit was removed to federal court then voluntarily dismissed by them …
A lawsuit brought against Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy by three former employees alleging the company was responsible for the loss of tens of millions of dollars in its retirement program has been dropped by the former workers. The original suit was filed in March 2017 by David A. Scholl, Brian K. Glover and Dennis …
Attorneys for Seventy Seven Energy Inc. laid it on the line recently, asking an Oklahoma federal judge to levy sanctions against a shareholder saying the firm filed a lawsuit just to generate attorneys’ fees. The motion by the Oklahoma City energy company came in a lawsuit being heard by U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange. The …
The federal government is under pressure to put more restrictions on oil and gas drilling on public land near the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico. The State’s Democratic members of the congressional delegation are applying the pressure after the Bureau of Land Management earlier had agreed to defer all leases within …
Oklahoma’s U.S. Representatives saw no problem recently in approving a proposal to speed the deployment of self-driving cars without human controls. The House unanimously voted in support of a move to put the federal government in regulation of the self-driving cars and barred states from blocking development of the vehicles. Representative Doris Matsui said the …