Texas-based Energy Transfer LP, the firm that acquired Oklahoma City’s Enable Midstream late last year, reached an agreement to provide LNG to a China company for the next 25 years. The agreement was with China Gas Hongda Energy Trading Co., LTD, a subsidiary of China Gas Holdings Limited. As a result, Energy Transfer LNG …
$5 gasoline hits Oklahoma!
You don’t have to drive to California to find $5 gasoline. Drivers can find it right in Oklahoma. The latest gasoline price report from AAA showed the average price for gasoline in Harmon County in the southwest part of the state is $4.99 per gallon. Actually, the price is $4.999 a gallon, about a …
Debate Tuesday by GOP Corporation Commission candidates
The four Republican candidates for the open seat on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission will take part Tuesday in a debate in Oklahoma City. The website, NonDoc and News 9 will sponsor the event at the OSU Hamm Institute for American Energy, 300 N.E. 9 street. It will be held from 5:30 to …
Protests filed over government lease sale in Wyoming
Protests are raised in Wyoming on an upcoming federal lease sale and they represent different sides of the oil and gas industry. The Petroleum Association of Wyoming is upset because too little land is being offered while environmental groups are protesting that too much is being offered by the Bureau of Land Management reported …
Other energy headlines
** President Joe Biden on Monday declared a 24-month tariff exemption for solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations after an investigation froze imports and stalled projects in the United States, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. ** President Biden on Mondayissued presidential determinations providing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with the authority to utilize …
Blunt letter by Rep. Mullin to Biden about his energy policies
Oklahoma congressman Markwayne Mullin says President Biden’s environmental policies are only forcing the U.S. to rely on the Communist Party of China to meet the country’s critical mineral needs. It’s what he told the President in a letter detailing how Biden’s decision to roll back President Trump’s modernization of the National Environmental Policy …
AARP to hold town hall in opposition to OGE rate hike
AARP Oklahoma plans to use a Tuesday morning interactive telephone town hall to educate OG&E customers how they can fight the utility’s proposed $164 million utility rate hike. The town hall, to be heard at 10 a.m. CST, will feature a panel discussion on the rate hike that is opposed by AARP. The organization’s …
Inflation hits Oklahoma tax receipts
The latest report from the Oklahoma Treasurer’s office showed gross production taxes on oil and natural gas increased in May, but it’s clear inflation is hitting the state. Gross production taxes totaled $162.1 million, an increase of $74.9 million or 85.8%. Treasurer Randy McDaniel, in releasing the overall gross receipts for May on Monday …
New waste-to-energy plant to be built in SE Arkansas
A $50 million landfill waste-to-energy gasification plant is coming to southeast Arkansas and it will be the first of its kind in the South. Florida-based MD Power LLC plans to build and operate the plant. The trash won’t be burned but rather heated to the point it gasifies according to a report by Arkansas …
Power demand in Texas to hit record high this week
Texas is likely to see some record-breaking electrical use this week and what’s odd is that it could come weeks ahead of the hottest days of the summer. ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas expects the power demand to hit an all-time record by Tuesday according to a report by Reuters. Click here …
