Kansas City-based Tallgrass Energy, LP announced Tuesday that, subject to market conditions, its subsidiaries Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP and Tallgrass Energy Finance Corp. intend to offer $500 million aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes due 2027 in a private placement to eligible purchasers. TEP intends to use the net proceeds of the Notes Offering to …
2020 archive
Environmentalists upset Kansas legislature is ignoring climate change
As alarm over climate change grows around the nation, discussions in the Kansas Legislature about the planet’s challenges are scarce. Activists and around a dozen lawmakers gathered to try to put more political force behind the issue. Though not everyone in the group agreed that carbon emissions were a problem, activists and most of the …
Wind turbine database is available
Take a look at the above picture. It’s what the wind farm locations look like in Oklahoma and Texas according to the newest wind turbine database released by a number of federal agencies. The United States Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) provides the locations of land-based and offshore wind turbines in the United States, corresponding wind …
Gasoline prices rebound in Oklahoma
A week after most states reported a drop in gasoline prices, they rose slightly according to AAA . The national average rose a penny, reaching an average of $2.44 per gallon this week. Oklahoma’s new average price is $2.15 a gallon, up about two cents compared to a week ago. Averages in the state’s major …
Judge rules against landowners fighting Permian Highway pipeline near Austin
A federal judge in Austin has ruled against landowners and residents who want to stop Kinder Morgan’s $2 billion Permian Highway Pipeline which would carry gas from the Permian to near Houston. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman struck down a request on Friday by opponents of the $2 billion project according to the Houston …
Increase in wastewater reported
The amount of wastewater created by oil and gas wells has increased in recent years, according to a new estimate, but not as fast as oil and gas production. Oil and gas production yielded 1.02 trillion gallons of wastewater in 2017, or 2.8 billion gallons a day, according to the estimate by John Veil, an …
NGL expands operations in the Permian
Tulsa-based NGL Energy Partners LP announced that the Partnership recently signed separate, long-term produced water transportation and disposal agreements with two large, investment grade producer customers in the Delaware Basin. These agreements include acreage dedications totaling approximately 20,000 acres, from which initial produced water volumes are expected to be received beginning July 2020. The …
Congressman blasts Bloomberg over how easy it is to farm
Republican Congressman Markwayne Mullin suggests Democratic Presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg hasn’t the slightest idea of what it means to be a farmer. Bloomberg drew ire on social media on Sunday night after resurfaced footage of the billionaire saying farming required less “gray matter” than modern work went viral, according to Newsweek. The ex-New York …
Oil fraud lawsuit goes to trial in OKC federal court
A contentious lawsuit in which a Tulsa couple and an energy company they formed in 2015 stand accused of fraud and securities fraud in how they obtained $1 million to buy oil and gas leases goes to trial Tuesday in Oklahoma City federal court. U.S. District Court Judge Patrick R. Wyrick denied the motion for …
Colorful Texas oilman Clayton Williams dead at 88
Clayton Williams, a Midland oilman, banker and entrepreneur who spent millions of his own money on a wild 1990 race for governor, has died. He was 88 and reportedly died of complications of pneumonia. Williams, a Republican, lost a nationally watched race for governor to Democrat Ann Richards in 1990, after besting three well-known Republicans …










