Gross Receipts to the Treasury slipped by almost five percent in August with oil and gas production taxes the primary driver, State Treasurer Randy McDaniel announced on Friday. August receipts from all sources total $979.5 million and are below collections from August 2019 by $47.3 million, or 4.6 percent. It marks the fifth time since …
Soon, the next truck you pass on a New Mexico road might be a self-driving truck. Daimler Trucks and allied vehicle software company Torc Robotics announced the expansion of testing for self-driving trucks to public roads in New Mexico along major long-haul freight routes. The companies have established a new testing center in …
The decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to downlist the American burying beetle under the Endangered Species Act drew support this week from U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, the Oklahoma National Guard, U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin, the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma and others. The government downlisted the beetle from endangered to threatened. “Downlisting …
A federal judge has denied North Dakota’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed over the five-month closure of a section of highway during the large protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The Associated Press reported the federal lawsuit brought by members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and a reservation priest in 2018 …
A German bioenergy company is preparing to produce corn ethanol and renewable natural gas at the site of a failed cellulosic ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa. Verbio Vereinigte BioEnergie AG is building an anaerobic digester on the site that will annually convert up to 100,000 tons of corn stover — a crop leftover consisting …
Ever since making its first contract to buy wind power from a wind farm in Oklahoma in 2012, Google has been adding to its contracts nationally for renewable energy sources.The latest is a deal to buy 140 megawatts of solar power from the Texas operation of Candela Renewables. Candela’s independent utility-scale solar power project …
A webinar showing the ongoing work by Oklahoma to improve high phosphorus levels in the state’s Illinois River caused largely because of chicken farming in eastern Oklahoma will be held this week. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board will present the first of three webinars on Tuesday, Sept. 8. “This webinar will inform stakeholders and …
An electric power outage and the resulting shutdown of air conditioning at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s Jim Thorpe building this past week led to issues with the agency’s ability to carry out virtual meetings. Users were alerted Thursday morning prior to the commission’s regular meeting. “The computer servers are warmer than they’re supposed to …
Liberty Oilfield Services Inc., which will become North America’s second-biggest fracking provider with the acquisition of a Schlumberger unit, expects to one day topple Halliburton Co. from the No. 1 spot. “Customer demand has told us to grow at this pace, and then deals like this come to us,” Liberty Chief Executive Officer Chris …
The COVID-19 pandemic has left U.S. refineries with a problem. What to do with growing supplies of diesel fuel, a byproduct of refining oil for gasoline. Reports suggest that some refineries aren’t eager to reopen and resume production of gasoline after Hurricane Laura hit the Gulf Coast states last week. Demand for gasoline is …
