The pipeline shortage to move oil out of the Permian Basin in west Texas and New Mexico is a big enough factor that oil in the basin is literally as much as $12 a barrel cheaper than the price of West Texas Intermediate crude set at the Cushing, Oklahoma hub. And it has caused ConocoPhillips …
The Canadian company we told you had decided against building two wind farms because the Air Force objected to their location near Sheppard Air Force base in Wichita Falls, Texas now has totally dropped the projects. Innergex Renewable Energy, the firm headquartered in Quebec has officially removed the proposed wind farms near Byers and Bluegrove …
Oil companies with big ties to Oklahoma have been sued by the state of Rhode Island and accused of causing climate change. The companies include ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., Marathon Oil Corp. and Hess Corp. Rhode Island attorney general Peter Kilmartin claimed his state was “uniquely harmed” by global warming with more than …
One consumers’ group, Americans for Prosperity-Oklahoma is asking the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to take a closer look at the $5.4 billion Wind Catcher Energy project proposed by Public Service Company of Oklahoma. The group delivered letters from more than 600 Oklahomans to the commission on Monday. It also issued a challenge in the form of …
A new member of the Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture was named this week by Gov. Mary Fallin. Britt Hilton, owner and manager of a cow-calf and stocker operation at Gate was appointed to serve the remaining term of Joe Mayer who died in May. While Hilton will serve immediately on the board, his final …
Just as Oklahoma has oil and gas museums stretching from Elk City to Ames, to Seminole and numerous other cities, the city of Leadville, Colorado has its National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum. And it’s preparing to induct the class of 2018 National Mining Hall of Fame inductees. They are Professor John Guilbert, Dr. …
Holly Energy Partners, L.P. will announce its results for the quarter ending June 30 on Aug. 1. The Dallas-based company with refinery and storage operations in Oklahoma will release the results before the opening of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Then it will hold a webcast conference at 3 p.m. central time on …
Amtrak is considering an end to its passenger train service, the Southwest Chief, between Dodge City, Kansas and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Instead,it wants to create a bus service connection on the route. But lawmakers aren’t happy about it and hope to derail the proposal. If the railway makes the move, it will mean a loss …
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s the latest member of the Trump administration to be verbally attacked while out in the public. It was this week at a Washington D.C. restaurant where a woman confronted him and called on him to resign. Kristin Mink put her encounter with Pruitt on her Facebook page saying he “was 3 …
