November 10, 2017 archive

$1 billion Pipeline to Carry Gas from STACK and SCOOP to Gulf Coast

A  $1 billion pipeline from Oklahoma’s Kingfisher County south to Louisiana is planned by Houston-based Cheniere Energy. The 200-mile Midship Pipeline will move natural gas to a south Louisiana liquefied natural gas terminal. There, the gas will be exported overseas. The gas will primarily come out of the STACK and SCOOP fields to the company’s …

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OKC Drilling-Information Firm Sold to Austin Company

The Oklahoma City-based Oil-Law Records Corporation has been sold to a Texas firm. Austin’s Drillinginfo has acquired the 62-year old Oklahoma company which provides permits to drill and completion reports for law firms and oil companies. The eleven employees of Oil-Law Records will keep their jobs and so will company CEO J. Brad McPherson. Drillinginfo …

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Purcell Company Planning to Move Ahead with Controversial Venezuelan Contract

Operators of the little Purcell drilling company that won a huge contract to drill for oil in Venezuela contend they can handle the operation and plan to begin moving rigs to the troubled company in the coming six to nine months. It’s what CNBC reports after spending weeks attempting to contact the owners of Horizontal …

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Senate Confirms EPA Assistant for Scott Pruitt

Supported by Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, President Trump’s pick to be an EPA assistant administrator, Bill Wehrum was narrowly confirmed Thursday by the U.S. Senate. It was earlier in the week when Sen. Inhofe took to the Senate floor to speak in support of Wehrum who will be in charge of the EPA’s Office …

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State House Passes Sales Tax Exemption Bill for Big Truck Owners

Democrats cried “corporate welfare” but the Oklahoma House voted Thursday in favor of a measure to give an exemption to big trucks, trailers, cargo vehicles and even oil-field frac tanks from the State’s new automobile sales tax. The vote was 60 to 20 as HB 1074 was sent to the State Senate. Rep. Bobby Cleveland, …

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Solar Farm to Help Power Air Force Base in New Mexico

A huge solar farm will be constructed to help provide electrical power to the Holloman Air Force Base near Alamagordo, New Mexico. The Air Force will work with El Paso Electric to build the 5-megawatt plant which will be the utility’s first renewable energy project built for a military installation. The plant will be made …

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Inhofe Says Glyphosate Study Was Long Overdue

A new government report has been released stating that the herbicide glyphosate does not cause cancer and Sen. Jim Inhofe says it was long overdue. “The Agricultural Health Study confirms what we already knew—there is no link between glyphosate exposure and cancer,” said the Senator after the study was published by the National Institute of …

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It’s the Law! The Red River is the Border

Those Texas landowners who went to court a few years ago to fight what they called a land grab by the federal government in a dispute over the Red River border have reached a settlement in the case. A Federal judge has signed off on the settlement with the Bureau of Land Management after it …

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