(REUTERS/Nick Oxford)   Oklahoma’s oil and gas rig count held steady over the past week while the nationwide numbers declined by one, leaving 620 active drilling rigs across the U.S. reported Baker Hughes Co. on Friday. Oklahoma’s count totaled 44 rigs, same as a week ago but 14 lower than …

  The lawsuit led by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond in a challenge of the EPA’s new methane emissions limits prompted the SEC this week to delay implementaton of its final rule on climate requirements of the oil and gas industry. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced it will hold …

  Oklahoma’s U.S. House and Senate members who unloaded heavy criticism on President Biden for his 2022 use of the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gasoline prices no doubt had more criticism over the administration’s latest delay in refiling the Reserve. After announcing in March it intended to acquire …

  Those legislators who held an investigation into the Texas Panhandle wildfires that left 3 persons dead and more than a million acres burned got an earful of complaints from residents as a hearing concluded recently in the city of Pampa, Texas. Residents complained loudly about state agencies and their …

(Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images) The warfare in Gaza and Ukraine prompted crude oil prices Thursday to gain more than a dollar and settle higher than $90 for the day. Global benchmark Brent rude for June finished up $1.30 or 1.5% at $90.65 a barrel on ICE Futures …

  With Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Kim David present, a State Senate Committee on Thursday approved a bill to create exemptions from the Oklahoma Public Meetings Act for the 3-member regulatory agency. While the Oklahoma Press Association remains neutral on the issue, some wonder if there will be less transparency and …

  Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford took another swing this week at the Biden administration over its attack on the oil and gas industry. This time, he and Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso and other Republican Senators in raising concern to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about targeting the industry with …

  Earth Day is April 22, but the Oklahoma City Office of Sustainability is focused on clean air, water and soil every day. Established in 2010, the Office has a staff of two who use data-driven strategies to strengthen OKC in the face of economic, environmental and social challenges. The …

  Astronaut and Oklahoman General Thomas P. Stafford will be buried Friday in Weatherford, his hometown. Stafford, born in Weatherford in 1930 died March 18. He was 93. His body lie in state Wednesday and Thursday at the Stafford Air and Space Museum where space items from his several trips …

  Texas legislators who are investigating last month’s deadly Panhandle wildfires that burned more than 1 million acres in the state and neighboring Oklahoma have run into a roadblock. The company hired to inspect utility poles in the Panhandle has refused to testify before the lawmakers. It didn’t go over …