While snow fell in northwest Colorado on Sunday, temperatures reached 102 degrees in southwest Oklahoma. Go figure is how Gary McManus, State Climatologist with the Oklahoma Mesonet would probably put it. “We had a slew of hundreds across southwestern OK yesterday, topped with Hollis and Grandfield at 102 degrees. Who knew that days above 100 …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s Transportation Division is preparing for its potential rule making and asking the industry for comments. The division recently notified those in the industry of the possible changes and asked it to review the rules for its Chapter 30. “In preparation for this year’s potential Transportation Division rule making, we would appreciate …
Industry experts, in the wake of an $8 billion renewable energy plan released by St. Louis-based Ameren, are questioning how the region’s electric monopoly could both pay for substantial new wind and solar projects and also cover existing coal plant costs — without overburdening ratepayers. Click here to read the story from the St. …
A new coalition of truck makers and electric-fueling players is asking Congress to spend billions of dollars to speed up the arrival of electric fleet trucks and charging infrastructure. The National Zero-Emission Truck Coalition, which came together in June, has been exploring how the government could apply the kind of federal support that’s boosted …
Oklahoma legislators are growingly nervous as they prepare to meet in several months to grapple with the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could result in a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in state revenue. As one told News 9 TV in Oklahoma City, he has lost a lot of …
A few oil and gas wells have been drilled in Oklahoma in the past several months as the COVID-19 has left the industry badly weakened. But recent filings of completion reports with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission showed Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources is somewhat back in action, reporting four wells from a single pad with …
Ring Energy Inc. based in Midland, Texas has granted an extension to the undisclosed buyer of its $315 million in assets in the Delaware Basin of West Texas. But Ring still hopes to have the transaction closed by the end of the month. It was in April in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic that …
U.S. oil and gas companies were returning workers and restarting operations at storm-swept production facilities along the U.S. Gulf Coast on Oct. 11, two days after Hurricane Delta barreled through the area. Chevron Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BHP Group Plc all said workers were headed back to production platforms in the U.S.-regulated …
** Gulf Coast oil and gas operations begin to restart, utility crews work to restore power, and Louisiana residents start to pick up the pieces again in the wake of Hurricane Delta. ** Fire investigators looking into what caused a wildfire that killed four people in far Northern California have taken possession of equipment belonging to Pacific Gas and Electric, …
From methane emissions to flaring, water conservation and the COVID-19 Pandemic, they are targets in the 2020 Sustainability Report released this week by Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corp. The company’s report highlights the company’s performance and efforts related to emissions and flaring reductions, environment preservation, pandemic and crisis management, employee empowerment and community investment. “At …
