April 29, 2024 archive

Energy briefs

** Interstate 40 was reopened in both directions Sunday as fire crews continued watch over a controlled burn of remaining fuel from a freight train derailment near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, a local fire chief said. Earlier evacuation orders have now been lifted. ** Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., which reported earnings Friday, are both predicting …

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Load fell from trailers and crushed two people to death in a car near Temple, Texas

  This massive piece of equipment rolled off its trailers on Saturday near Temple, Texas, crushing a car and killing two people while critically injuring a third person in the car.   It took rescuers nearly four hours to remove the driver from the crushed car. The incident happened as the oversized piece of eqipment …

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Oklahoma remained steady with rig numbers while nation’s count dropped 6

  The nation’s number of active oil and gas rigs dropped by six in the past week, reported Baker Hughes Co. The count dropped to 613 while Oklahoma held stead with 44 active rigs, still down from the 59 reported a year earlier. Nationally, the numbers included a decline of 5 oil rigs to 506 …

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