January 16, 2023 archive

Hochatown’s broken water pipe calamity

  Word’s coming out about the huge frozen water pipe problem that hit southeast Oklahoma at Christmas time. Buried in the recent Sunday Oklahoman was a Richard Mize article about the water pipes that froze then flooded many of the 3,000 luxury cabins and lodges in Hochatown, the little community that recently incorporated as a …

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Williams promotes executive to lead corporate strategic development

  Williams announced the promotion of Chad Zamarin to Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategic Development, effective immediately. In his expanded role, Zamarin will assume responsibility for the company’s commodity marketing efforts, in addition to his current responsibilities that include corporate strategy, business development, project analysis, upstream joint ventures, new energy ventures, communications and corporate …

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Alliance Resource investors await 4Q earnings report

  The question investors in Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. want answered is whether the Tulsa-based company’s big money gains in the third quarter will continue in the fourth quarter. They’ll know when the company reports its fourth quarter 2022 financial results before the market opens on Monday, January 30, 2023. Alliance management will discuss these …

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Energy headlines

** The N.C. Utilities Commission’s first-ever plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions caused by generating electricity in the state has been met with widespread criticism. Environmental groups and solar energy trade associations have argued that the plan unnecessarily limits the amount of new solar energy while allowing Duke Energy to move forwa ** After proving it could …

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Will Biden continue his war on oil and gas?

  Perhaps the control of the U.S. House by Republicans will create a turn of events for the oil and gas industry which for the past two years has been the target of critical efforts by President Biden. It has created some speculation whether Biden will be as bold in his war on the industry. …

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Wyoming legislators consider end to EV sales by 2035

  There’s nothing like it in the Oklahoma legislature. But the Wyoming legislature is considering a proposed idea of a statewide ban of the sale of new electric vehicles by 2035. It’s sort of a reverse California law where gasoline powered vehicles are to be banned in the coming decades. The Wyoming resolution has support …

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