Scott Pruitt isn’t the only one to pack his bags and leave the Environmental Protection Agency in the past week. Some of his aides apparently have followed the doctrine of “where you go, I go.” With the former Oklahoma Attorney General’s departure last week as EPA Administrator, some of his top assistants have departed too. …
The man who succeeded Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, delivered his first address to employees and the media on Wednesday. At he quickly went off script and addressed his prior work with the coal industry. “I did work for a coal company and I’m not ashamed of the work …
Police in Yukon, Oklahoma indicate the frac sand truck driver killed in a crash last week was talking on her cellphone at the time of the July 5th incident. Paula Jo Black of Sulphur Springs, Texas was killed when the Tex-Sand Inc. truck crashed into a ditch off State Highway 4 just north of Yukon …
David Le Norman, president and CEO of Le Norman Operating, has been named Member of the Year by the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association. The association recognized Le Norman as one of the most prominent donors to the Oilfield Services Fundraising Auction, for his work to boost the association’s political fundraising efforts, and for steadfast leadership …
An Iowa federal judge has ruled against Tulsa’s NGL Crude Logistics in a biofuels fight with the EPA that involved allegations made against a company later purchased by NGL. But part of the case is going to trial. U.S. District Judge Linda R. Reade granted summary judgment this week to the Environmental Protection Agency which …
Tulsa’s NGL Energy Partners LP announced this week it wrapped up its $900 million sale of its Retail Propane business to Superior Plus Corporation. The sale was announced in May when the company said it planed to exit the retail propane business and focus its capital on the Water Solutions and Crude Logistics businesses. NGL …
Still unsure how Mick Cornett and Kevin Stitt stand on energy issues and other related topics? The two candidates in the runoff for the Republican nomination for Oklahoma Governor will go head-to-head in a forum later this month hosted by the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association. The forum will be held at the General Closing Session of …
Oklahoma City-based Enable Midstream Partners, LP plans to release is second quarter 2018 financial results on Aug. 2. The release will be made prior to the opening of the markets on that Thursday. Then the company executives will hold a conference call at 9 a.m. central time to discuss the results. Enable owns, operates …
Tallgrass Energy, the Kansas City-based midstream company with storage in Cushing, Oklahoma announced an open season this week for Niobrara crude oil transportation on its Iron Horse Pipeline. Iron Horse is still under construction and the company anticipates the start of commercial operations by Feb. 1, 2019 with an initial capacity of nearly 100,000 barrels …
With oil refineries in Tulsa, Oklahoma and El Dorado, Kansas, Dallas-based HollyFrontier Corporation is expanding with the purchase of Red Giant Oil Company in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Red Giant is a private family-owned lubricants company founded in 1903 and is one of the largest suppliers of locomotive engine oil in North America. It also has …
