Declared Bankruptcy

A crew from Morgan Well Service, of Prague, repairs a hole in the casing at a 10,000-foot-deep gas well outside Tuttle, at the northern edge of Grady County, in 2017. Photo by Mike W. Ray

A crew from Morgan Well Service, of Prague, repairs a hole in the casing at a 10,000-foot-deep gas well outside Tuttle, at the northern edge of Grady County, in 2017. Photo by Mike W. Ray

Energy industry bankruptcies soared in 2019

OKLAHOMA CITY – An oil and/or gas exploration/production company declared bankruptcy every 8-2/3 days last year. Bankruptcies among companies that engage in hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) accelerated in 2019 to 42 and involved nearly $26 billion in debt, double the $13.