July 2023 archive

Devon Energy volunteers help in cleanup of BLM land in Wyoming

  Devon Energy volunteers partnered recently with Buffalo Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Wyoming Conservation Corps (WCC) to conserve and restore public lands in Wyoming.    Thirty volunteers visited the former Juniper Draw Cold Bed Methane (CBM) Field to plug groundwater monitoring wells, clean up trash and pieces of flume equipment used for …

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Texas congressman acts to defund John Kerry’s climate office

  Texas Congressman Chip Roy is taking a cue from those who sought and carried out some actual defunding of police forces around the country. But he’s not targeting police. The Republican Representative introduced legislation to defund climate envoy John Kerry’s office at the State Department. And he received the support of 26 other Republicans in …

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Arkansas uses $1 billion grant to launch its Internet access campaign

While Oklahoma narrows the focus of bringing broadband service to the state’s rural areas, Arkansas is doing much the same, with the help of a more than $1 billion grant from the federal government. Glen Howie, the state’s broadband director: “We are going to do our very best to make sure the $1 billion is …

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Broadband tour concluded by Oklahoma officials

  Unlike any tour that a performer would take across Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Broadband Office “Let’s Get Digital: Oklahoma Broadband Tour” has come to an end. In announcing the end of the research tour, the OBO said it is now equipped with valuable on-the-ground information to help build an effective plan to expand access to …

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Dividend declared by ONEOK

  The board of directors of ONEOK, Inc. declared a quarterly dividend of 95.5 cents per share, unchanged from the previous quarter, resulting in an annualized dividend of $3.82 per share. The dividend is payable Aug. 14, 2023, to shareholders of record at the close of business Aug. 1, 2023. In January 2023, ONEOK announced …

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NGL Energy Partners investors await 1Q earnings in Fiscal year 2023

  First-quarter earnings for Tulsa’s NGL Energy Partners LP will be released Wednesday, August 9 as analysts and investors wonder if the company will continue seeing slight economic gains. The release of will be made after the clcosing of markets on that day. It will be followed by an earnings call with NGL’s management team …

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Cole says transportation funding will modernize FAA facilities

Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole says a $65 billion transportation bill approved a House Committee he chairs is critical to the FAA’s air traffic control academy in Oklahoma. The fiscal year 2024 THUD bill, which refers to Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, won approval in th Appropriations Subcommittee. “Oklahoma has an important relationship with the Federal …

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EPA redirects climate money refused by states

    The  Biden administration has moved to get around those states that refused to take millions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act to plan how to cut pollution. The EPA is sending the money to the biggest cities in the states of Florida, South Dakota, Iowa and Kentucky—the states that refused to apply …

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CVR refinery operator to fight EPA decision to reject waivers of biofuels mandates

  Yes, the CVR Refinery in Wynnewood was one of the small refineries that received an EPA rejection last week of a bid for waivers from biofuel blending mandates. And CVR plans to put up a fight over the decision by the Environmental Protection Agency. “We will continue to fight for our rights that we …

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Quick energy stories

** A trusted FBI informant told agents in 2020 that Hunter Biden was hired by Burisma Holdings to use his father to help “protect” the Ukrainian gas firm from problems, including an effort to “take care of’” a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating the company for corruption, according to an explosive document released by Sen. …

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