Two years after the 2021 Winter Storm Uri devastated Oklahoma and Texas with power outages and caused natural gas prices to soar to historic levels, a lawsuit is being played out in Oklahoma City federal court involving one of the state’s major energy firms. Yes, the historic gas prices are at the root of …
Curiosity by officials at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission led to the recent discovery of ghost-written letters in reported support of a Texas Company’s plan for approval of an $11 billion liquified natural gas export terminal. The firm, NextDecade, allegedly submitted letters to FERC on behalf of nearly two dozen public officials, but it turned …
When it comes to preparing for electric vehicles, a new report ranks Oklahoma 25 in the U.S. The state is also doing much better according to a scorecard from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. It graded states on their progress of improving electrical infrastructure to handle the anticipated increase in the use …
Oklahoma’s Choctaw Nation just received a $25 million federal grant for transportation development in its tribal areas of southeast Oklahoma. It was one of 162 projects receiving more than $2.2 billion in grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation under a program expanded under the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law. The $2.26 billion for 162 …
Exxon Mobil, the company that recently made a $100 million deal with Oklahoma City’s Galvanic Energy for lithium production in southern Arkansas, just widened its grasp on acreage in the state. It agreed to develop more than 6,100 lithium-rich acres in Arkansas’ Smackover Formation with Tetra Technologies. The deal was the second move this …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
