Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners will meet Tuesday afternoon at the state capitol for what appears to be a routine business session. Issues at hand include the 24-hour signing agenda and one of the items is a request from EPIC Charter schools for funding from the Oklahoma Universal Service Fund. Empire District Electric Company of Kansas …
September 2023 archive
OGE prepares customers for another possible rate hike
It wasn’t an OG&E bill that arrived in the Monday morning mail this week, but a notice to customers that they will be facing another jump in their bills because of a rate hike sought by the utility. In essence, get ready for another $2.21 per month to be added to an average residential …
Battery recycling company to locate plant in Bartlesville
Bartlesville will be the site of a li-ion battery processing plant to be built by Blue Whale Materials, a sustainable li-ion battery recycling company. It will be Blue Whale’s first such processing operation and is part of the company’s effort to advance the domestic li-ion battery supply chain. Blue Whale’s commercial facility will be situated …
OKC Energy Summit attracts national and world energy leaders
At least two presidential hopefuls, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, were on hand Monday for an energy gathering in Oklahoma City’s Hamm Institute for American Energy. Founded by Continental Resources leader Harold Hamm, the Institute was the site of the American Energy Security Summit featuring …
FERC worried about power plant problems in winter weather
The challenging winter storms of the past few years, notably Winter Storm Uri of 2021, certainly have the attention of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. It delved into the disastrous and deadly events of of Winter Storm Uri that pounded Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and other states. As a result, FERC issued a report that …
Transportation fuels manufacturing plant to be built in Southern Arkansas
Southern Arkansas is about to get a major plant to convert natural gas into high-grade diesel, naphtha and jet fuel. GTL Americas in Little Rock recently announced that South Korean conglomberate hyundai ENG America and Houston’s S&B Engineers and Constructors will be design and planning partners for the plant near Pine Bluff. Once completed, …
Oklahoma ranked 2nd nationally for oil and gas industry deaths
Oklahoma is a national leader in a category it isn’t boasting about…..oil field deaths. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oklahoma ranks number two nationally for the number of employees killed in the oil and gas industry. The Texas Tribune reported the first-of-its-kind, the study relies on federal workplace data from …
ONEOK’s acquisition of Magellan Midstream is a done deal
ONEOK made it official on Monday, announcing the completion of its acquisition of Tulsa’s Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. As reported last week by OK Energy Today, shareholders of both companies approved the plan. ONEOK said as a result, the creation was a “more diversified North American midstream infrastructure company focused on delivering essential energy …
Quick energy reads
** Two top Republican lawmakers are probing Sher Edling, a California-based law firm, over its dark money-fueled climate litigation against oil companies, Fox News Digital has learned. In a letter sent to Sher Edling partners Vic Sher and Matt Edling on Monday morning, Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James …
Texas AG says counties cannot ban solar farm development
The interim attorney general in Texas ruled that county governments cannot ban the development of solar farms. The ruling came from Angela Colmenero, the interim attorney general while Ken Paxton awaits his impeachment trial. It came in a decison regarding Franklin County and Colmenero said state law does not give a county the authority …