The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back Obama administration rules governing the storage and disposal of coal ash, rules intended to prevent the toxic waste from getting into waterways. The rules were implemented in 2015 and required energy plants that burned coal to dispose of the powder by using wastewater …

  A Texas-based oil and gas water company is moving into southeast New Mexico, to provide processing for water and other fluids generated during operations in western section of the booming Permian Basin. Oilfield Water Logistics, based in Center, Texas, announced its plans to develop a 540-acre oil and gas …

California oil major Chevron is preparing for another big push in the Permian Basin of West Texas. The company filed for drilling permits to develop 17 horizontal wells on in Midland County and other four horizontal wells on a pair of leases in Culberson County, Railroad Commission of Texas records …

Fourteen environmental, nonprofit and political groups hosted a day of events in response to the Shale conference on October 23, 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At noon the public was invited to “stand in solidatiry with members of the Seneca, Sioux, Lakota and other Native and faith leaders to protect our …

Earthquakes shook northern and southeastern Oklahoma and south-central Kansas Saturday night and Sunday morning. The strongest was a 3.2 magnitude quake Saturday night near Hutchinson, Kansas, strong enough to be felt by residents in the north central Kansas city of Concordia. The U.S Geological Survey reports no significant damage was …

Completion reports filed for November 1, 2019. CANADIAN COUNTY Native Exploration Operating Llc Mississippi: Oil 527 Gas 3563 Water 1933 Flow14 12N 8W Grey Snow 14-1208 1mh, August 16, 2018 HH, OIL, TD: 15830 ft Lat: 35.50870, Long: -98.00887 API: 35017252410000 Revolution Resources Llc24 14N 5W West Edmond Swd 1-24, September 03, 2019 SH, DISP, TD: 10793 …

Permits to drill issued for November 1, 2019. Beaver CountyHODGES #10-1, October 31 2019 01 5N 24E W2E2W2NE API: 00723933 Lat: 36.932234532815734, Long: -100.41004291883789 WILL ENERGY CORPORATION SH, RC, 9095 ft, COUNCIL GROVE(3250) Canadian CountyVAUGHN #1H-14-23, November 01 2019 11 12N 9W SWSWSESE API: 01725557 Lat: 35.523038625865595, Long: -98.11821619857874 CITIZEN ENERGY III …

  An estimated 9,120 barrels of crude oil have spilled from a leak in the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota this week, officials said. That’s equivalent to about 383,000 gallons of oil, which could fill more than half of an Olympic-sized swimming pool. The leak was detected Tuesday night near near Edinburg, …

Canada’s Encana Corp., a major oil and gas operator in Oklahoma announced it is moving its headquarters from Calgary to Denver, Colorado. The company also will change its name to Ovintiv Inc. next year. The decision comes as other majors including ConocoPhillips have been selling Canadian assets and cut back …

Rig counts are still falling across the U.S. and in Oklahoma, the number fell by 3 in the past week to reach 51. A year ago, Oklahoma had 144 active oil and gas rigs in the state. Nationally, the count fell by 8 in the past week to 822. The …