Cypress Environmental Partners, L.P. announced Wednesday the board of directors of its general partner declared a cash distribution for the first quarter of 2020. The cash distribution is $0.21 per limited partner common unit. This amount remains unchanged from the fourth quarter of 2019. The distribution will be payable on May 15, 2020 to …
It wasn’t your typical drive-by shooting. This one involved oilfield workers who were targeted by a gunman this week in Weld County, Colorado and now the gunman is on the run and being hunted by deputies. Denver 7 TV news reported the shooting happened Monday afternoon when a white man in his 30s or 40s …
About two dozen conservative groups are asking President Trump to go ahead and waive the controversial biofuel blending requirements fought by at least one small Oklahoma refinery and others. The groups sent the President a letter this week pitching their request against the Renewable Fuel Standard for the rest of this year. Twenty-three groups …
A lawsuit’s been filed by an environmental watchdog group against the government plan for more construction at the country’s only underground nuclear waste repository in the state of New Mexico. The suit was filed in the New Mexico Court of Appeals by the Southwest Research and Information Center which claims state environmental officials ignored …
A federal judge is stopping a Nebraska state agency from ending power purchase agreements with three wind farms in the state. The ruling came against the Nebraska Public Power District. Laredo Ridge Wind LLC, Broken Bow Wind LLC and Crofton Bluffs Wind LLC filed a lawsuit last year, alleging NPPD was improperly attempting to cancel …
In an editorial opinion written for Wednesday’s edition of The Oklahoman, former Oklahoma congressman Ernest Istook warned Oklahoma should not become OPEC. He wrote against a possible move by state regulators to order a reduction in oil production in the state. By Ernest Istook Oklahoma should not become OPEC. Nor should Texas or any other …
Two days after Houston-based Apergy reported a first quarter 2020 loss of nearly $660 million, the company announced the closing of its UPCO plant in Claremore and the layoff of 26 employees. UPCO is a subsidiary of Apergy. The company made a WARN notification with Oklahoma’s Office of Workforce Development and blamed the need for …
Another round of layoffs by Halliburton at its Duncan, Oklahoma operations was announced this week. At least 240 manufacturing workers lost their jobs effective April 29. “This is a mass Layoff and the facility will remain open,” stated Halliburton spokeswoman Danyelle Huff in a WARN notice made with the Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development. It …
The coronavirus pandemic resulted in the layoff this month of more than 400 workers at the Hertz Administrative Center in Oklahoma City. Word was finalized this week at the Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development. A notification by Hertz indicated the layoffs of 415 workers happened between April 14 and April 20 at the center located …
The latest energy company to produce a multi-well site with production of at least 1,300 barrels of oil a day in Oklahoma’s STACK play is Citizen Energy Iii LLC. The privately-funded company based in Tulsa filed reports this week on three Northern Dancer 8-17 wells located at 5 10N 6W, a site several miles southeast …
