Water and earthquakes will be the topic of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s General counsels’ Forum luncheon on Friday in Oklahoma City. Dr. Kyle E. Murray, a hydrogeologist for the Oklahoma Geological Survey and Adjunct Faculty for the ConocoPhillips School of Geology and geophysics at the University of Oklahoma will be the speaker. As the …
A new weekly record for ethanol production is reported by the Energy Information Administration. Ethanol produced increased 7,000 barrels a day from last week, hitting 1.013 million barrels a day or 42.55 million gallons daily. The four week average stood at 981,000 barrels a day for an annualized rate of 15.04 billion gallons. As of …
An appeal by Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources Inc. to a 2013 ruling by the U.S. Department of Interior forcing the energy giant to pay nearly $2 million more in natural gas royalties is being heard by the D.C. Circuit in Washington. This week, the Interior Department argued the company waited too long to lodge a …
Some say the proposed contentious merger between Tulsa’s Williams Companies and Energy Transfer Equity of Dallas is more like a shotgun marriage. Williams wants to force the deal by suing ETE while ETE wants to dump Williams on the altar. Now days before a lawsuit by Williams Companies against Energy Transfer Equity goes to trial …
Oklahoma is considered among a handful of states with the greatest cancer risk to oil and gas workers from methane and air toxics emissions in the industry, according to a new report from the Clean Air Task Force. The study found that areas with the greatest health risk are generally located in states with the …
As the old Frank Sinatra song goes, “Nice work if you can get it, you can get it if you try.” It’s what some state legislators are saying about the $250,000 job just landed by former Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Patrice Douglas. She was named the new Chief Executive Officer of the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment …
A new study by geophysicists at Southern Methodist University in Dallas shows two giant sinkholes near the small West Texas towns of Wink and Kermit have grown unstable and could increase in size. The sinkholes are a mile apart and satellite radar indicates they appear to be expanding and according to the researchers, …
Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. was back in a New York federal court this week fighting with bond trustee Bank of New York Mellon Corp. over hundreds of millions of dollars in contract damages stemming from what was described as a botched bond buyback. The fight is over a reversed May 2013 order by Manhattan …
Oklahoma congressman Steve Russell and other members of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform await a response from Secretary of State John Kerry after issuing a second subpoena against his Department in its probe of the Keystone XL pipeline issue. The GOP-controlled Committee issued the subpoena last week to force the …
While the nation’s average gasoline price increased seven cents a gallon in the past two weeks, the average in Oklahoma rose just two cents, hitting a statewide average of $2.15 a gallon, according to the latest Fuel Gauge Report from AAA Oklahoma. The nation’s average is up to $2.38 a gallon, the most expensive average …