The wild growth of shale oil exploration in Oklahoma has prompted the U.S. Energy Information Administration to add the Anadarko region to its monthly drilling report. Most of the Anadarko basin is in Oklahoma. Twenty-four counties in Oklahoma and five in Texas make up the area. But more than 10 percent of new wells drilled …
Earthquake attorney Scott Poynter had to go to court in order to get the right to interview some experts as he prepares for a late November trial against some Oklahoma energy companies. The companies are blamed for a large earthquake six years ago. Representing clients who sued energy companies following the 2011 earthquake in Prague …
Devon Energy’s reporting the success of three wells, each producing more than 1,000 barrels of oil a day in Oklahoma’s STACK. They were among eleven wells reported as completed, according to OK Energy Today’s Well Completion Reports. All three of the large wells were apparent DUCS or drilled but uncompleted wells because each had spud …
In a case of “who might blink first”, billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s vowed not to raise the $9 billion bid he’s made to take over Oncor Electric Delivery Co. in Texas. His vow comes after Elliott Management Corp. bought some of the debt Energy Future Holdings Corp., the main owner of Oncor and a company …
Just like Cushing as become the place where prices of West Texas Intermediate crude are determined, southern Louisiana is fast becoming the place where natural gas prices are determined around the world. Louisiana is home to the Henry Hub, a standard bearer for domestic shale gas markets. But now the jump in U.S. exports to …
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas says oil and gas employment in Texas grew again for the seventh consecutive month. The bank says the industry added nearly 4,300 positions statewide in June over May and it credited jobs growth in the mining sector. Oil field services are included in the mining sector. Researchers estimated there …
The Wednesday afternoon and night time thunderstorms in Oklahoma did their best to wipe out the drought in the state. The statewide average rainfall total now stands at 5.47 inches according to the Oklahoma Mesonet. It means the new rainfall total has resulted in the seventh wettest August since records began in 1895. The …
Troubled with a 2015 crude oil pipeline leak in California, Houston’s Plains All American Pipeline, a company with operations in Oklahoma has announced plans to replace the line that spilled 142,000 gallons of oil. It’s known as the Refugio Oil Spill and Plains has submitted an application with the Santa Barbara County Energy Division to …
A gas surge on the grounds of the Pawhuska school district campus resulted in the cancellation of classes for the remainder of the week. The surge drew the attention of federal and state officials as they investigated the incident. On hand were representatives of the EPA Region 6 office in Dallas along with the Oklahoma …
I think it’ll open the doors for a lot of the vertical operators to come in and get what’s theirs.” Oilman Andy Sheen. Two days after winning what might be the first lawsuit by a vertical well operator blaming a horizontal well driller on the loss of a stripper well, Oklahoma City oilman Andy …