OK Energy News

  As it prepares for its merger with Southwestern Energy later in the year, Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corporation plans a release of its first quarter operational and financial results. They will be made public after the close of markets on Tuesday, April 30. Company leaders plan to take part …

    After nine hours of testimony, County Commissioners in Lawrence, Kansas approved a permit to allow construction of a 600-acre solar farm near the city. Farmers and other landowners opposed the Kansas Sky Energy Center, a project financed by Evergy. Environmentalists and others supported the project that, according to Solar …

    The solar eclipse that attracted visitors to Oklahoma also brought in an estimated $42 million in tourism revenue reported the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department. The figure is based on attendance of nearly 123,000 visitors to seven state parks who came to view the full or partial totality …

  Crude oil prices and Oklahoma energy stocks were down in Wednesday’s trading….oil by 3% due to an increase in US commercial inventories along with weaker economic data out of China. Analysts suggested that investors are still keeping a wary eye on what develops in the Middle East where Israel …

  The Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority, the state’s largest issuer of tax-backed debt, will return to the municipal bond market on Thursday for the first time since 2022. The Authority is scheduled to price nearly $168 millionof fixed-rate State Facilities Revenue and Refunding Bonds, designated the Series 2024A and 2024B Bonds, to …

    The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported the national crude stocks grew from 457.3 million barrels of oil reported on April 5 to 460 million barrels as of April 12. It marked another increase since March 29 when the national crude storage amounted to 451.4 million barrels. Cushing’s total …

    Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking a judge to determine whether confidential records used as the foundation for his “market manipulation” lawsuits against two energy firms have to remain confidential during any trial. Five days after his office sued two Texas energy firms and accused them of …

  An oil and gas industry group in Wyoming is giving serious thought to heading to court to fight the Biden administration over its early-April rule that will make it more difficult for some oil and gas firms from bidding for energy leases on public lands. Here’s why the consideration …

  Cooler weather is on its way to Oklahoma and the weekend might even push temperatures in the Panhandle to near freezing levels. But Gary McManus, State Climatologist with the Oklahoma Mesonet and Oklahoma Climatological Survey says it should be no surprise because the average last freeze date in the …

Crude oil prices remained mostly flat in Tuesday’s trading as investors carefully eyed what might happen next following Iran’s attack on Israel over the weekend. West Texas Intermediate crude for May delivery finished 5 cents lower or 0.06% at $85.36 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Global benchmark …