A new government report shows Oklahoma is one of eleven states that generated at least 10 percent of their total electricity from wind in 2015. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that Oklahoma ranks fourth among the eleven states with 18 percent of its electricity coming from wind power. Iowa is ranked at the top …
The Denver federal appeals court has ruled against environmentalists and a Navajo tribal group fighting to stop the Bureau of Land Management from approving permits to drill in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and Colorado. It represented another win for supporters of the fracking technology. The U.S. 10th Circuit Court said the coalition …
“We think the evidence is pretty clear and it keeps mounting,” so stated an attorney about Oklahoma’s earthquakes. The chief of the Pawnee Nation made it clear over the weekend that his tribe intends to do something about the growing earthquakes around Pawnee and northern Oklahoma. And if that means joining those who have …
While Native Americans are protesting construction of a nearly $4 billion oil pipeline in North Dakota, not far away the State of Montana and the federal government plan to see compensation over a 2015 oil pipeline spill into the Yellowstone River. The U.S. Department of Interior joined the state in indicating it wants damages paid …
As the saying goes, “Not bad work if you can get it!” A federal judge in New Orleans has ruled the attorneys who sued BP over its 2010 Gulf oil spill will divide $555.2 million for their work on behalf of the people and businesses who suffered economic damages. It’s the ruling from U.S. District …
One of those who ended up behind bars during last week’s Native American-led protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota was Oklahoma Caddo Nation chairwoman Tamara Francis-Fourkiller. She was said by family members to be visiting the Standing Rock Sioux to advise them during negotiations with the construction team building the $3.8 billion …
Tulsa-based Williams Companies Inc. is reporting a third quarter 2016 net income of $61 million while its third quarter adjusted earnings totaled $1.1 billion. The adjusted earnings totaled $1.192 billion, an increase of 8% or $89 million from a year earlier, according to a filing the company made early Monday with the Securities and Exchange …
General Electric, the company that recently formally opened its new oil and gas energy research site in Oklahoma City has reached a nearly $30 billion deal to combine its oil and gas business with Baker Hughes Inc. The “New” Baker Hughes will be a leading equipment, technology and services provide in the oil and gas industry …
Alan Armstrong, President and CEO of the Williams Companies, was honored on Wednesday by the Tulsa Press Club as one of its 2016 Headliners Club inductees. The Headliner awards recognize outstanding civic, business, professional and industry leaders of the Tulsa community. This is the 60th year of the awards. Since 1956, many of Tulsa’s oil …
Tulsa-based Williams Partners L.P. announced Friday that it will extend the targeted full in-service date for its Atlantic Sunrise expansion project to mid-2018, according to a company press release. The partnership expects to begin a portion of its service during the second half of 2017. The revision is due to a recently updated schedule of …
