Tesla is already looking for workers at its under-construction $1.1 billion truck plant in Austin, Texas. Inside EVs reported that Tesla, the company that picked Austin over Tulsa, Oklahoma as the site for the Cybertruck Gigafactory, has already posted 39 jobs. First word of the job posting came from Teslarati. Tesla has already started …
Tulsa’s Williams Cos. named a new manager of its relationships with investors and key investment stakeholders. Danilo Juvane was named vice president of Investor Relations effective Sept. 1 and will be responsible for enhancing the company’s strategies of engagement with the stakeholders. the company said the overall goal is to attract and keep …
Midstream operator Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. in Tulsa has named a new Chief Financial Officer. Matthew R. Lewis was named CFO and will begin his new duties on Sept. 8, 2020. He previously was CFO at Streamline Innovations, Inc., a privately-held company providing specialty solutions for water and gas treating processes in the …
Writing this week in the Washington Examiner, Alex Hendrie, the director of Tax Policy at Americans for Tax Reform charged Democrats are playing politics with the COVID-19 pandemic. The following is his opinion piece. “Instead of supporting broad-based policies that help workers and businesses through the coronavirus pandemic, Democrats are playing politics and using the …
Cleanup is well underway at the site of a 16-car training derailment in Oklahoma possibly caused by thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour Monday night. Strong winds also left power line damage near Buffalo. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe train derailed about one mile southwest of the town of Gage in Ellis …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford joined forces this week with two Democrats in filing a bill to help federal workers with teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic. He and Sens. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona call it the Pandemic Federal Telework Act. Their announcement said it would maximize telework for …
The Environmental Protection Agency will soon issue a new rule lifting Obama-era controls on methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. It could come late this week. Under the rule, oil and gas companies will no longer have to install systems that can find and fix methane leaks from wells, pipelines, and …
The latest development in the fight against the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline in North Dakota comes from a federal judge who has given the Army Corps of Engineers three weeks to detail options about resolving a permit issue. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last month voided an easement …
At the height of the oil crisis, some energy production companies rented storage space from the U.S. government’s emergency stockpile in order to handle the glut of crude oil. But now those same companies are starting to withdraw their crude from the storage sites. Reuters reported that since Aug. 1, the companies have taken …
