March 2016 archive

Phase One of ONEOK Pipeline Finished in Southwest Texas

Tulsa-based ONEOK Partners says it has completed the first phase of construction of its nearly $480 million Roadrunner Gas Transmission pipeline project in the Permian Basin of west Texas.
The 200-mile pipeline connects ONEOK Partners’ WesTex na…

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Phase One of ONEOK Pipeline Finished in Southwest Texas

Tulsa-based ONEOK Partners says it has completed the first phase of construction of its nearly $480 million Roadrunner Gas Transmission pipeline project in the Permian Basin of west Texas.
The 200-mile pipeline connects ONEOK Partners’ WesTex natural …

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Refunds Coming for Excel Energy Customers Over Nuclear Fuel Issue

The Associated Press reports Excel Energy customers in North Dakota will get a refund as part of an ongoing settlement in the company’s fight with the federal government over how spent nuclear fuel was stored. The North Dakota Public Service Commission…

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Iran’s Missile Tests and How They Affect Oklahoma Energy Producers

The issue of the move by the Obama administration to drop economic sanctions against Iran and allow the country to export more oil, affecting Oklahoma energy producers rose again this week when Iran test fired two ballistic missiles.
“This did n…

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Iran’s Missile Tests and How They Affect Oklahoma Energy Producers

The issue of the move by the Obama administration to drop economic sanctions against Iran and allow the country to export more oil, affecting Oklahoma energy producers rose again this week when Iran test fired two ballistic missiles.
“This did not sur…

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Environmental Issues at Stake in Fight to Replace Supreme Court Justice

In explaining his opposition to any move by President Obama to make a nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, Sen. Jim Inhofe said two environmental legal battles are critically at stake.
Speaking Wednesday on the Senate floor, the Republican Senator, w…

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Drought Returns to NW Oklahoma

The first drought recorded in the state since November 2015 has reached Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma Mesonet. While rain fell in large amounts this week in southern and southeastern Oklahoma—-4 inches at Durant—-the northwest and the Panhand…

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OKC Tops for Women Business Leaders

Oklahoma City is known as an oil city but now a new national report ranks it number one for female entrepreneurs to live and work, according to Merchant Cash USA in conjunction with Women’s History Month.
The report listed Oklahoma City tops for women…

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Williams and Energy Transfer Equity Merger Moves Forward

Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. completed a private offering of convertible shares to some of its investors in order to help pay for its proposed purchase of rival pipeline company, Williams Companies.
According to the Form 8-K filed with the federal Sec…

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Oil Futures Continue to Rise

Oil futures reached another high for the year on Wednesday, bolstered by expectations that major producers will make a move this month to stabilize their crude output levels and stem the rise in the glut of oil inventories.
April West Texas Intermedia…

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