The Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s controversial decision allowing OG&E to install a $500,000 scrubber on its coal-fired Sooner Power Plant at Red Rock is being called a “catastrophe” by critics and a forced decision by “Big Brother” by one commissioner. It took only 8 minutes for the Commission to meet and make the decision, one …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission approved a plan by the state’s largest electric utility to spend about $500 million to upgrade its coal-fired power plant in northern Oklahoma. The three-member regulatory panel voted unanimously on Thursday that the plan by Oklahoma Gas & Electric to install dry scrubbers at its Sooner Power Plant near Red Rock …
Oklahoma producers on Monday fired back at environmental groups in a legal tussle in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, asking for dismissal of a lawsuit over alleged oil and natural gas injection well-induced earthquakes in the state. At issue is a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club (Sierra Club v. …
The slump in crude prices is starting to show up as missed payments by consumers in the oil patch, according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal. In states from Oklahoma and Texas to North Dakota and Wyoming, rising unemployment in the energy sector is pushing up loan delinquencies and raising the risk …
Oil futures settled above $46 a barrel Thursday, as seven straight weeks of declines in U.S. crude production as well as weakness in the dollar helped lift prices to their best level in nearly six months, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. Some analysts questioned whether crude will continue its positive momentum given a lack of significant …
Billionaire energy investor T. Boone Pickens said earlier this week that he believes the U.S. oil industry is “dead in the water” as OPEC members continue to pump more crude and U.S. companies curb drilling. Speaking at a dinner hosted by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, Pickens that he doesn’t expect U.S. drilling operations to pick up again any time …
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The U.S. House Armed Services Committee, including Oklahoma Representatives Steve Russell and Jim Bridenstine turned back a move by a Democratic Representative to strip part of a national defense spending bill that included exemption of protection for the greater sage-grouse on military lands. The vote was 27-35 against removing the limits as part of …
Energy Transfer Equity, L.P., the company involved in a messy merger with Tulsa-based Williams Cos. has announced a quarterly cash distribution of $0.285 per common unit. That figures to be $1.14 per unit on an annualized basis or a 16-cent a unit increase. It is also a 16% increase compared to the first quarter of …
