Oil futures settled lower Monday, with U.S. prices down by more than 4%, as the market braced for the return of crude output from Libya following reports that Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar will lift an eight-month blockage of crude exports that had shut nearly all of the country’s production. Concerns over the possibility of …
Enel Green’s latest solar venture, the Roadrunner solar plant has gone operational in west Texas—the largest plant of its kind in the state. The plant is located in Upton County where Enel recently finished the second and final phase of construction, adding another 245 megawatts to the 252-megawatt first phase that went into operation …
A facility that would inject liquid oilfield waste underground could be coming to the Delaware Basin in New Mexico after state regulators recently approved the needed permits for the facility. Milestone Environmental Services based in Houston announced the completion of the permitting process via the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division on Tuesday for a …
A Navajo Nation judge halted operations at nine hemp farms in northwestern New Mexico as part of a legal fight between a businessman and the tribe’s Department of Justice. The judge issued a preliminary injunction against Dineh Benally and two of his businesses following a hearing Friday, the Farmington Daily Times reported. The tribe sued Benally …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners will pick up Tuesday where they left off last week when their Thursday virtual meeting was interrupted by technical glitches. In a 1:30 p.m. meeting, they will again consider a possible extension of their March order that arose from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tim Rhodes, Director of Administration will …
While Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe finds himself in a re-election fight, he opened another battle in the past week—one with the U.S. Energy Energy department. As the Tulsa World reported this week, it has to do with the control of the nation’s nuclear arsenal and its future development. At the center of the …
SUBSCRIBE Sign In If we have wildcatters in the oil and gas industry, why not in the renewable industry? It’s the point of Chris Tomlinson’s opinion piece this week in the Houston Chronicle. OPINION // CHRIS TOMLINSON Texas universities are doing amazing research into clean energy generation, and it’s beginning to change the world. What’s needed …
Tribal leaders have reburied the remains of their ancestors that were taken more than a century ago from what’s now a national park in Colorado. A Swedish researcher unearthed the remains of about 20 people and more than two dozen funerary objects from southwestern Colorado in 1891. They eventually became part of a …
The U.S. House Rules Committee met this week to formulate a rule on the sweeping clean energy package pushed by Democrats and one Republican is fighting to preserve the oil and gas industry’s fracking capabilities. At question is H.R. 4447 (116) which sets up a floor vote on the measure that Democrats argue is …
** The House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources plans a hearing Tuesday, Sept. 22 entitled “Trump Administration Broken Promises on Renewable Energy.” It begins at 12 p.m. eastern time. ** Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. announced the completion of its reverse stock split and other business updates. Northern completed the previously announced …
