June 2018 archive

Pruitt Deals with Protester

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt recently responded to a heckler at one of his speeches by saying the left doesn’t want to talk about the truth. The former Oklahoma Attorney General,  was speaking at a Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference in Washington, D.C. when a woman protester interrupted him. She held up a …

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Number of nonstop flights grows at Tulsa International Airport

More airlines are offering nonstop flights out of Tulsa’s International Airport and it’s a good sign for airport CEO Mark VanLoh. Soon, the airport will feature nonstop flights to 25 airports in 23 cities, according to a recent report by the Tulsa World. As a result, passenger volume at the airport grew by nearly 3 …

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More Ryder Electric Vehicles Coming

More of those Ryder trucks and vans you see driving along around the nation will soon be electric powered. Although, it might be a while before the Ryder EV’s make it to Oklahoma where the typical drive is more than the 100 mile limited range. The Miami, Florida-based company has reserved 500 new Chanje Energy …

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Total Makes 25% purchase of shares in Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

Shareholders of Clean Energy Fuels Corp. have approved of the more than $83 million purchase of shares of company stock by Total Marketing Services, S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of Total S.A. Clean Energy, while based in California has more than 16,000 CNG fueling stations across North America including in Oklahoma. Its refueling stations in …

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Nation’s Rig count grew by 2 in past week while Oklahoma slipped by the same count

Oklahoma lost 2 rigs in the latest weekly count while nationally, the count grew by 2 to reach 1,062 active oil and gas rigs. Baker Hughes Co. and the Red Top Rig Report by the Independent Oil and Gas Association released weekly data. In Oklahoma, the count slipped to 140 while nationally, the U.S. added …

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Independent driller hits large producing well in Oklahoma’s STACK

An Addison, Texas energy company has the highest producing oil well reported in Oklahoma’s STACK in the latest round of completion reports. Longfellow Energy’s Phyllis 35-04H well located about 5 miles east of Hennessey in Kingfisher County (35 19N 6W) had production of 1,225 barrels of oil a day when it was completed  late last …

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Utility scam alert from Oklahoma City police

Oklahoma City police are alerting consumers of a new scam involving an OGE impersonator. Investigators say someone posing as an OGE worker has pulled up in an orange truck with white lettering on the side, very similar to the color of the real OGE utility trucks. The impersonator threatened to shut the victim’s electricity off …

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Devon shares move upward after EnLink sale

The move by Oklahoma City’s Devon Energy Corp. to sell its stake in Enlink Midstream Partners LP for $3.13 billion and expand its buyback of shares is working. Shares of the company rose 6.8% to $42 a day after making the announcement that  it not only sold its part of Enlink to an affiliate of …

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Top U.S. housing market is—–Midland, Texas!

Make fun of living in Midland, Texas all you want, but it’s now the hottest housing market in the U.S., thanks to oil and gas exploration in the Permian Basin. The boomtown tops the U.S. home market list released recently by Realtor.com. There’s such a demand for housing that it takes a median of 28 …

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USDA hands out $309 million in loans to rural electric cooperatives

Millions of dollars more are being invested in rural electric utilities by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA announced this week the investment of $309 million in 16 projects in a dozen states. Oklahoma utilities were not the recipients of the funding announced by Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett. But …

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