More than 100 Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) employees and contractors were sent Friday to Texas to assist sister company AEP Texas restore electricity to customers impacted by that state’s ongoing power emergency. Workers from PSO’s Tulsa, McAlester and Lawton districts are on their way to San Antonio, where they will spend the …
The historic freezing weather that gripped Oklahoma, Texas and other energy-producing states apparently played a major role in leaving this week’s rig count unchanged from a week earlier according to Baker Hughes Co. Oklahoma also was unchanged. The count stayed at 397 with a decline of one oil rig, leaving 305 oil rigs still …
A most contentious hearing is expected Tuesday when New Mexico Democratic Congresswoman Deb Haaland goes before a Senate Committee to hear her nomination to be Interior Secretary and Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford will be listening and watching. Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford and others on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will take …
The big plunge in crude oil prices on Friday means investors and traders start out Monday with levels under the $60 mark in the U.S. and less than $63 in Europe. West Texas Intermediate crude oil for March delivery fell $1.28 to $59.24 a barrel Friday. Brent crude oil for April delivery fell $1.02 …
Oil refinery operators in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana are still reviewing the damage caused by the historic freeze and some of the largest refineries in Texas could be down for weeks of repairs. “It’s going to be a difficult restart for refiners,” said Andy Lipow, president of energy researcher Lipow Oil Associates in Houston …
Northern Oklahoma was the site of a 4.2 magnitude earthquake Friday morning, one that was strong enough to be felt 150 miles away in Oklahoma City and more than 70 miles away in Wichita, Kansas. No one was reported injured but the quake was a repeat of a similar strong quake earlier in …
Just how cold was it in Oklahoma over the past week? Cold enough that alligators in Southeast Oklahoma were found frozen in ponds with their snouts sticking above the ice in order to survive. Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s David Arbour spotted some of them in the more than 5,800-acre wetland project called the …
It hasn’t happened in Oklahoma, but at least two lawsuits were filed against utilities over the historic power failure in Texas. Both involved some of the same providers who operate in Oklahoma. One of the suits is against CenterPoint Energy, the Houston-based provider that is also a main supplier of natural gas in Oklahoma. …
