Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners now faces a lawsuit filed by the state of North Dakota over its Dakota Access Oil pipeline. North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem filed suit this month claiming the Dallas company owns agricultural land in violation of a state law that bans large corporations from owning farmland. The suit is against …
From the offices of U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe: WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, questioned Mr. Vicente Sarmiento, Director of the Orange County Water District; Mr. Brian Motyl, Assistant Director of Finance at DelDOT; and Dr. Doug Holtz-Eakin, President of the American Action Forum …
With the wrapup of its $900 million sale of its Retail Propane business this week, Tulsa-based NGL also announced a change in its executive leadership. In a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission, the company said Vincent J. Osterman resigned from his position as President of Retail Propane Operations. He will no longer be a …
The latest drought monitor report for Oklahoma shows improved conditions, especially in northwestern Oklahoma. But one weather expert is talking of “flash drought.” The state has no exceptional drought, which is the worst conditions under the drought monitor categories. The second worst category, extreme drought, shows a slight increase to about 9 percent of the …
ConocoPhillips says it’s planning a 50 percent increase in its 2018 share repurchase program, another sign of strong business for the energy company. The Houston firm announced it will increase purchases from $2 billion to $300 and expects to fully fund this year’s $3 billion goal as well as its dividend and capital expenditures with …
A Maryland company has just won a more than $2 million contract to make energy upgrades to federal buildings in Fort Worth, Texas. Green Generation Solutions LLC will install 16,000 solid state LED technology lamps and fixtures at three buildings maintained by the General Services Administration Region 7. The company contends the lighting improvements in …
The Williams Companies, Inc. and Williams Partners L.P. have scheduled a special meeting in August for stockholders to vote on the proposed merger of the two. The special meeting of stockholders will be held Aug. 9 at 10 a.m. Central Time at the Williams Resource Center Theater in Tulsa. Williams’ stockholders of record as of …
An 18-cent a share dividend has been declared by Halliburton, the Texas company with major operations in Oklahoma. The Houston-based company said it will be payable Sept. 26, 2018 to shareholders of record at the close of business on Sept. 5, 2018.
As Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Dana Murphy makes her bid in a runoff for the GOP Lieutenant Governor nomination, she’s announced what she calls major endorsements. One is from Major Ed Pulido, a wounded Iraq war veteran from Oklahoma City. “We are very proud of my friend Dana Murphy!” wrote Pulido. “But she has always been …
A Dallas, Texas company has struck it big in Oklahoma’s Panhandle by reworking a 55-year old vertical well and finding a gas goldmine. Merit Energy returned the status to gas of the Simmons C 1, 26 6N 12 E, located only 3 miles south of the Kansas state line and the well is producing 55,000 …
