June 29, 2023 archive

Lankford and other Senators work to extend nation’s chemical security

  Terrorism and chemicals. Like those used in the 1995 bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City. They are the subject of an effort by Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford and a handful of other Senators, Republicans and Democrats to make sure chemicals in the U.S. don’t fall into the hands of terrorists. Lankford …

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Oklahoma’s towing industry could face rate changes

  Rate making in Oklahoma’s wrecker industry will be the focus of an upcoming meeting of leaders at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s Transportation Division. During the July 11 meeting, staff will lead a discussion on the procedures and timing for a change of the rates for nonconsensual towing and storage. While the staff will not …

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Cushing and Stroud could receive Utah oil involved in Colorado rail fight

    An announcement by Houston’s USD Partners LP on Wednesday regarding the firm’s railroad oil terminal at Stroud in northern Oklahoma suggests a possibility it could soon handle crude oil coming out of Utah’s Uinta Basin. It is only a possibility. If so, it might add to the controversy in Colorado where several counties …

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Stroud rail oil terminal the focus of a new contract for a Houston firm

  Houston’s USD Partners LP announced this week that it has entered into a three month rail-to-truck Terminalling Services Agreement with a new, third party customer at the Partnership’s Stroud, Oklahoma terminal . The short-term agreement includes take-or-pay provisions with a minimum volume commitment. The customer is entering into the agreement as a trial period …

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Nebraska solar farm destroyed by baseball-sized hail

  Leave it to mother nature to show one weakness of solar farms….hail. The size of baseballs. It fell recently and destroyed a solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. It shattered nearly every one of the panels on the 5.2 megawatt solar project according to the Cowboy State Daily. Don Day, Cowboy State Daily meteorologist, said …

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Energy headlines

** A U.S. judge on Monday signaled he was prepared to go ahead with selling Venezuela-owned oil refiner Citgo Petroleum’s assets to satisfy creditor claims while pushing back against one of Venezuela’s key objections. ** The auto industry’s largest lobbying group said an EPA plan to electrify American vehicles is “neither reasonable nor achievable in …

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