NGL Energy Partners LP announced Thursday a distribution for the quarter that will end Dec. 31 of this year. The Board of Directors of the Tulsa-based midstream company approved the distribution for holders of the partnership’s 9% Class B Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred units and the 9.625% Class C preferred units. The …
December 2020 archive
Wind farm developer gets $200 million in new financing
Apex Clean Energy, the part operator and developer of at least 8 wind farms in Oklahoma has secured $200 million more in refinancing. The Virginia-based company secured a loan from a family office investor group led by ZOMA Capital and PLEXUS Solutions. ZOMA Capital is Colorado-based and PLEXUS is headquartered in New York and …
Arkansas researchers work to develop cyber protection for power grid
Taking a cue from the 2015 cyber hacking attack that left 250,000 Ukrainians without electric power, researchers in Arkansas are study ways to use artificial intelligence to protect the state’s electric grid. Natural State researchers are working to develop artificial intelligence tools that can help protect the electric grid and other vital infrastructure from …
Completion reports for December 16, 2020
Completion reports filed for December 16, 2020. completions: none were processed today
Permits to drill for December 16, 2020
Permits to drill issued on December 16, 2020 permits: none were processed today
Crude oil makes more gains and Brent finishes over $51
It was another up day for crude oil prices on Wednesday as Brent crude made it over the $51 mark and WTI pushed close to $48. West Texas Intermediate crude rose 5 cents for a 0.10% gain to $47.87 for January delivery in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Global benchmark Brent crude finished …
Phillips 66 lowers 2021 spending budget
Phillips 66 announced this week a dramatically lower 2021 capital budget of $1.7 billion. It reflects a nearly 43% drop from the 2020 estimated budget as the company is like other energy firms—trying to recover from an energy market devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It remains unclear how the new budget will affect the …
Ban on federal drilling leases would cost states billions
A study by the state of Wyoming contends any ban on new oil and gas drilling leases on federal lands would cost eight Western states more than $8 billion in tax revenue and $34 billion in investment in the next five years. Reuters reported the study showed New Mexico and Wyoming would be hit …
Defense contractor expanding to OKC
Hawaii-based North Star Scientific Corporation, an electronic defense manufacturing firm announced it will expand operations to Oklahoma City. The initial facility will start operations in January with only five employees but the company said it will eventually increase to 40 workers once the plant is fully operational. “NSS has chosen the state of Oklahoma …
AG tells Seminole tribe ‘not so fast’
Even as the Oklahoma Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a move by regulators to continue enforcing oil and gas regulations on what is considered to still be Indian land in the state, one tribe is telling oil and gas operators they have to start paying taxes to the tribe. The Oklahoman reported …