An oil company has been ordered by a Texas judge to stop production in the city of Dayton, just outside of Houston. The order came after residents complained that oil is seeping into their drainage system, damaging properties and making them sick according to KPRC TV News. Click here for KPRC
California officials are investigating the disappearance of 30 tons of ammonium nitrate from a railcar crossing the Midwest. Ammonium nitrate, which is used as fertilizer, can also be used to create explosives and was a key component in the homemade bomb used in the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. According …
How prophetic was an OK Energy Today article last November about Oklahoma City’s Galvanic Energy. “Brent Wilson and his former colleagues who joined him after being laid off from an Oklahoma City oil and gas company might be sitting on a gold mine,” was the lead to the story. Galvanic, a firm created for …
The Biden administration has a coming fight on its hands with Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grishm. How much of a fight? “I will use every tool in my toolbox,” she recently vowed as she is against the federal government’s recent approval of a nuclear waste storage site in southeastern New Mexico. The …
Not everyone in Oklahoma is a fan of the state’s new law that recently resulted in 13 financial institutions banned from doing state business because of their use of ESG against the oil and gas industry. A weekend report showed there are other sides to the impact of the new law. The Sunday Oklahoman …
Rep. Carl Newton, R-Cherokee, this week thanked the governor for signing into law a bill that will allow teens as young as 14 years old who live or work on a family farm to be eligible for a driving permit to go directly to or from home, work or school. House Bill 1962 becomes effective …
Fears that U.S. politicians will fail to agree on a new debt ceiling and perhaps trigger a default led to a drop in crude oil prices on Friday. US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate crude for July dropped 25 cents or 0.3% to close at $71.69 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent …
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has been in talks with Biden administration officials in recent days about speeding the permitting of a new Enel North America solar plant near Pryor, a project that the governor says will be the largest economic development investment in state history. Under the project, the state has approved $180 million …
** Exxon Mobil Corp. said the prospect of the world reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 is “highly unlikely” due to the drop in living standards that would come with such a scenario. The Texas oil giant made the comments in a regulatory filing that argued against proxy adviser Glass Lewis’ view that …
The nation’s count of oil and gas rigs took another major drop in the past week, falling 11 to a new U.S. level of 720 rigs reported Baker Hughes Co. The nation’s rig count has fallen 35 since May 6. Baker Hughes reported a decline of 17 rigs last week and 7 on May …
