Before this week’s oil price bust, New Mexico leaders had predicted their state was on track to raise another $1 billion for public schools and hospitals. Now it’s not known how the plunge in oil prices will affect the state’s revenue from the oil patch. February oil and natural gas royalty payments totaled nearly $109 …
New Mexico authorities are still investigating an oil drilling accident that left two men dead last week in the state’s Permian Basin area. Eddy County sheriff’s officers say Nicholas D. Gerberich, 28, of Roswell and Storm Hutchins, 24, of Carlsbad were found lying unconscious on the ground. Sheriff Mark Cage said the deaths happened …
Suncor will pay a nearly $9 million fine for air pollution violations from its oil refinery near low-income neighborhoods in Denver. It is part of a settlement the refinery operator reached with Colorado officials. KUNC radio in Denver reported that state health officials said the refinery exceeded emissions limits for a host of health-harming …
The state’s major oil and gas group has come out against proposed rules from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission that would allow teleconference or video conferences for protested issues. The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma has filed a memo with the state regulators opposing draft amendments to the commission’s rules of practice which were proposed in February, …
A bill targeting Oklahoma’s wind industry is being closely monitored this week by industry supporters as legislators face another deadline. HB3150 is by Rep. Ryan Martinez, an Edmond Republican representing House District 39. “It would be absolutely devastating,” said Mark Yates of the Advanced Power Alliance in Oklahoma. The bill would eliminate a refunding …
The fate of two bills focusing on construction of wind turbines near private airports in the state lies in both the House and Senate in Oklahoma. One targets the wind industry and would create a setback of wind turbines while another targets so-called “sham airports.” Rep. Carl Newton’s HB3296 would prohibit the construction of a …
The Oklahoma Department of Mines plans an April 2 public hearing on proposed permanent changes to its non-coal mining rules and regulations. It’s a move to get into the 21st century and modernizing applications for permits. The proposed rules would require the Department of Mines to place a copy of a permit application and …
At the urging of Oklahoma U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford and a handful of other Republican Senators, President Trump now plans to appeal a recent Denver federal appeals court ruling that directly affected a refinery in southern Oklahoma. President Trump has been persuade to appeal the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling …
Gas flow from natural gas wells in Oklahoma will see a reduction after action last week by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, a move opposed by some of the state’s large oil and gas companies as well as the American Petroleum Institute. The regulators okayed a proration formulate between April 1 and Sept. 30 that requires …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett has apparently changed his mind and now opposes a bill proposed by Rep. Zack Taylor that prompted another regulator to offer public criticism of the measure. HB 1556, called the Oklahoma Corporation Commission Reform Act faces a Thursday deadline to be voted on in the House of Representatives, but Commissioner …
