Quarterly distribution announced by Enable Midstream

  Enable Midstream Partners, LP announced that the board of directors of its general partner declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.16525 per unit on all outstanding common units for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2021. The distribution is unchanged from the previous quarter for the Oklahoma City-based company. The quarterly cash distribution of $0.16525 …

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United Energy announces update to major acquisition

  United Energy announced it is moving ahead with plans to acquire the remaining 51% of some 200,000 acres and 2,200 wells in the Cherokee Basin of Northeast Oklahoma and Southeast Kansas. Nearly 3-weeks after the Plano, Texas-based company announced it had acquired 49% of the Cherokee Basin, it followed up Wednesday with another announcement …

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Another major solar farm for Pueblo, Colorado

  Another massive solar farm will be built near Pueblo, Colorado. Plans for the 298-megawatt solar farm were announced this week by Xcel Energy and Lightsource bp. It will be the second in the city for Lightsource bp which will sell the power to Xcel and represents a cumulative half billion-dollar private investment in the …

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Biofuels Senators can’t get the White House’s attention

  Republican Senators from Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota are beating the drums to get a meeting with the White House to talk about biofuels policy. They’re not so sure the Energizer Bunny could do any better. An earlier push led by South Dakota Sen. John Thune got no where and this …

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Stage is set for oil and gas industry fight with New Mexico’s Democratic Governor

  New Mexico’s Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is apparently ready to turn her 2019 carbon emissions executive order into law in the coming months—and the oil and gas industry warns it’ll crush the state’s economy. The governor wants the state to cut all carbon emissions from every sector by 2050. Republican legislators responded by claiming …

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High marks for OU and OSU’s green power use

  Oklahoma’s two largest universities rank in the top 20 of the EPA’s list of schools for green use power. The EPA’s Top 30 College & University Partners showed the University of Oklahoma ranked 13th highest for its 122,065,000 kWh used annually in providing power for the school. The green power came from wind farms …

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Phillips 66 to buy remaining stake in partnership for $3.4 billion

  Phillips 66 says it’s buying the remaining units of Phillips 66 Partners that it does not already own in a $3.4 billion deal announced Wednesday. The refiner, reported Reuters, intends to simplify its governance and corporate structure. Click here for Reuters.  

The headlines of other energy news stories

** Texas oil exploration and production companies added 2,900 jobs in September, a sign of the industry’s ongoing recovery from its pandemic slump. ** Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will travel to Scotland this week to promote the state as a location for clean energy projects at ​​the United Nations Climate Change Conference. ** A U.K.-based holding company announces plans to reopen …

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Odessa, Texas shaken by 2 earthquakes

  Like Oklahoma, the state of Texas has discovered that its saltwater injection wells might be the cause of earthquakes. Two quakes measuring 3.4 and 3.6 magnitude rattled Odessa, Texas Tuesday evening around 5 o’clock. Texas regulators were in the process of asking a handful of oil companies to reduce their saltwater injections into disposal …

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Crude oil climbs again—OK energy stocks slumped

  Crude oil prices made another rung in the ladder of higher prices on Tuesday inching closer to $85 a barrel in the US while settling at a strong $86 a barrel in Europe. But it didn’t help most Oklahoma energy stocks. West Texas Intermediate crude for December delivery finished up 89 cents at $84.65 …

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