Dozens of representatives from Oklahoma State University and three other universities taking part in a $6 million dollar study of drones and their use in weather research met recently in Stillwater. About 65 faculty and students are working under a $6 million federal government grant to develop unmanned aerial systems for weather research. The program …
A $5.5 million grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is going to two Oklahoma State University professors of integrative biology to study ways to protect imperiled species. Kristen Baum and Monica Papes will work with a researcher at the University of Texas in Austin on a 3-year project on pollinator habitation restoration in Oklahoma …
The city of Tulsa is getting a $300,000 federal grant to clean up old pollution sites known as Brownfield locations. U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee noted how Tulsa has used Brownfield grants in the past to clean up sites that led to the construction of the BOK …
Crude oil futures closed out Tuesday on a higher note as OPEC forecasted higher demand with lower production next year, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. August West Texas Intermediate crude climbed $2.04, or 4.6%, to end trading at $46.80 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, reaching its highest finish in nearly a week. On …
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Nearly three dozen oil storage tanks remained burning Tuesday at a new WPX Energy site in northwestern New Mexico. The fire broke out late Monday night near the small community of Nageezi where 36 oil storage tanks caught fire, prompting a shutdown of the WPX Energy operation. Evacuations of neighboring homes were made. About 50 …
Steps taken by executive leadership at Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy have resulted in an improved status given the company by the investment bank and asset management firm Piper Jaffray. Chesapeake’s been upgraded from Underweight to Neutral because analysts at Piper Jaffray believe the natural gas producer’s recent actions have “diminished” its default risk over the …
The government’s forecasting U.S. petroleum and other liquid fuels production will only grow in the coming decades. The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts the production will grow from 14.8 million barrels a day in 2015 to 18.6 million barrels a day by 2040. The prediction comes in the EIA’s Annual energy Outlook 2016. And what does …
Oklahoma has yet to get a commercial solar operation but solar remains of high interest in the Midwest. Now construction has started on the largest solar energy project in the Midwest is underway in Chisago County, Minnesota. There, D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments, LLC acquired the 100 MW North Star Solar Project from Community Energy, Inc. …
National U.S. Energy Department officials are gathered this week in Tulsa for a summit on Indian Energy. The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy is hosting the session entitled “Tribal Energy: Strategic Roadmap 2015” at the Reservation Economic Summit. It will continue through July 14. The last such National Tribal Energy Summit was …
