June 8, 2020 archive

Gasoline prices continue upward movement

As the coronavirus pandemic slowly eases and more people are leaving their homes for work and even vacations, gasoline prices are going up. Oklahomans are paying an average of $1.73-a-gallon at the pump, after a low of $1.40 in April. A week ago, the statewide average was $1.65 and a month ago, it was $1.44. …

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Energy news in brief

** Hundreds of Venezuelans queued up in miles-long lines to try to fill their cars with subsidized gasoline over the weekend, a week after President Nicolas Maduro launched a new dual-price system aimed at easing an acute fuel shortage. ** Not everyone loves solar. Tennessee residents near the site of a proposed 9 megawatt solar farm, which …

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Civil rights leaders press oil industry on diversity but overlook existing numbers

  Civil rights leaders are calling on the oil and gas industry — dominated by white men — to hire more women and people of color. The news group Axios used the above picture as a representation of the subject matter. But what Axios and perhaps some civil rights leaders ignored in the story is how …

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Colorado is home to 38 underground coal mine fires

The Denver Post reported this week on how the state of Colorado is monitoring and working to extinguish 38 underground coal mine fires. South Canyon near Glenwood Springs is a place you’d go to check out new mountain biking trails, or go on a hike. It’s also a good place to spot underground fires in …

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Significant gas well drilled near Alex by Gulfport Midcon

  Amidst major financial and executive changes at Tulsa, s Gulfport Midcon LLC , the company has filed a completion report on a 2019 well drilled near the Grady County town of Alex, one producing nearly 14,000 Mcf of natural gas. The completion report on the Jeannie 6-27x34h was filed this past week even though …

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10,000 to lose their jobs at BP

  Imagine the city of Guthrie, Oklahoma  being eliminated. Slightly more than 10,000 people. Or Weatherford, Oklahoma. That’s the impact of what executives at BP plan to do as the company reveals it will cut about 15% of its entire workforce as a response to the coronvavirus. It is part of Chief Executive Bernard Looney’s …

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