November 16, 2022 archive

Williams signs deal to boost production of natural gas in Haynesville basin

  Tulsa’s Williams Cos. signed an agreement this week with another firm to help increase the company’s efforts to transport more natural gas out of the Haynesville basin to meet growing LNG export demand along the Gulf Coast and around the world. The company reached an agreement with Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Sempra. Under …

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OGE invests in Interactive Education initiatives

  Oklahoma Gas and Electric is high lighting its continued efforts to fund projects directly supporting local educators and students in the company’s service area. In a release this week, the utility emphasized the assistance it is giving to teachers:   As a first-year teacher at Arthur Elementary School last year, Sarahi Garcia-Acosta knew it …

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More energy headlines

** Years in the works, a massive petrochemical refinery in western Pennsylvania fed by the vast natural gas reservoir underneath Appalachia became fully operational Tuesday, oil and gas giant Shell plc said. ** A flotilla of ships is carrying distillate fuel to New York Harbor to shore up stocks ahead of the winter, according to traders and …

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Energy Department funds EV battery projects

  One of the energy projects funded by nearly $74 million in grants by the Energy Department to advance recycling and reuse of batteries for electric vehicles will be for a west Texas project. Element Energy, a company based in Menlo Park, California received $7.9 million for a wind-energy project in west Texas. The company …

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Kansas Gas Service customers to be hit with higher monthly bills

  Customers of Kansas Gas Service, a division of Oklahoma-based ONE Gas will be hit with higher bills beginning in December. Some of it is because of the same thing that caused Oklahoma gas consumers to pay higher bills—recovering the 2021 Winter storm costs. The Kansas Corporation Commission approved a new Kansas Gas Service Company …

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