After 22 years with the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, Julie Cunningham was named this week as interim executive director, succeeding J.D. Strong who left to become the new Director of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. Cunningham had been the Water Board’s Chief of Planning and Management since 2008. She agency in 1994 as an …
Tulsa-based Samson Resources has encountered some opposition from the U.S. Trustee in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case filed last year in the District of Delaware. At the same time, the Department of Interior is objecting too. The Interior Department told the judge in the case that Samson Resources corp. must pay $136.9 million and get the department’s …
A total of $3.5 million in fines for criminal clean air violations will be paid by four companies in eastern Texas. The violations occurred from 2008 until 2012 at two Southeast Texas oil and chemical processing facilities and involved one tank explosion that killed a worker. The companies entered guilty pleas in federal court. KTX …
Thursday has been proclaimed an “Oilfield Prayer Day” by Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, but Democratic critic Rep. Richard Morrissette says it should be a day to pray for no more earthquakes. “I think we should all pray on the 14th to have one day in Oklahoma when we have no earthquakes,” said the legislator who …
The Oklahoma Natural Gas Company will avoid $8.5 million in fines over a January natural gas pipeline explosion as part of a $1,010,000 agreement announced Wednesday before a Corporation Commission Administrative Law Judge. Just as Judge Michael Porter opened the contempt hearing to receive evidence on three citations issued by the Corporation Commission, attorney Mark …
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lost its attempt this week to convince a federal appeals court to block construction on part of the Dakota Access pipeline that runs through North Dakota. The D.C. Circuit court of Appeals had listened to tribal arguments last month but the judges said they would not permanently stop construction of …
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has upheld a $30 million judgment against two Enterprise Products Partners LP units over a 2010 Texas pipeline explosion that killed a worker and led to the failure of the company that had employed him. The ruling came in a Washington county lawsuit filed by C and H Power Line Construction …
“He’s a buffoon, but he’s our buffoon.” T-Boone Pickens on Donald Trump. When it comes to oil and gas exploration, there’s no doubt T-Boone Pickens knows what he’s talking about. When it comes to Presidential politics, the 88-year old billionaire who grew up in the southeastern Oklahoma town of Holdenville has some definite …
FedEx Freight dedicated a massive new CNG center for its Oklahoma City freight headquarters on Tuesday and who better to be on hand than billionaire oilman T-Boone Pickens, the energy leader who is pushing the conversion of trucks to CNG power. The 88-year old native of Holdenville joined national leaders of FedEx as well …
The latest energy survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City showed a slight increase in activity. The 3rd quarter survey result was described a “moderate increase in Tenth District energy firm activity,” according to a release by the Bank. “For the first time in two years, firms reported rising business activity and revenues …