Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett suggested again Tuesday he will not step down over the allegations he drunkenly groped a man at a national conference in Minnesota, prompting at least one speaker during the commission’s meeting to call him a “sexual predator” to his face. Another called him a “drunkard.” The latest round of …
The fall of crude oil prices on Tuesday result in a day of mixed trading for Oklahoma energy stocks. The decline in oil prices was linked to a seemingly easing of worries about a possible widespread war in the Middle East. Iran has yet to turn its vocal threats into military action against Israel over …
According to a new report from the government, the amount of electricity generated by wind farms such as those spread all over Oklahoma is now more than from coal-fired generating plants. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports electricity generation from wind established a new record in April across the U.S. and wind generation exceeded …
If you hop aboard the tourist-popular Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train in southern Colorado, don’t expect to smell the coal-fired smoke coming out of the historic engines. It’s gone. No more. Instead, the company phased out its last coal-burning engine this year and switched to five oil-powered engines running on the …
** Chevron has achieved a technological breakthrough, producing first oil from a U.S. Gulf of Mexico field under extreme subsea pressures, the energy company said on Monday. ** Volvo’s all-electric semi trucks have reached the landmark of driving 50 million miles, making work safer and quieter for drivers. According to Electrek, Volvo said that if its vehicles had …
An attorney for a Weatherford-based erosion control company indicted by an Oklahoma City federal grand jury on price-fixing charges maintains the firm has done nothing wrong and will defend itself in court. Sioux Erosion Control Inc., its Vice President BG Dale Biscoe and company estimator Randall David Shelton were named in the indictments, accusing …
A Tulsa-area contractor faces 17 counts of felony embezzlement and one count of engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses following an investigation by Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Consumer Protection Unit. Charges were filed this week in Creek County against Todd Douglas Briggs, who operated T Briggs Construction and Oasis Pools and Outdoor Living. He …
Members of the Oklahoma House Energy and Natural Resources Committee already know they will meet in October to focus on a number of related issues. During the hearing on Tuesday, October 22, the committee will spend the entire day discussing water, energy generation and the wind industry. The committee will focus on the topic …
Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas and others on the House Committee he chairs are digging deeper into the Biden administration’s decision to freeze exporting U.S. liquified natural gas. And they are raising new concerns about flawed science used by the administration in the LNG pause. Rep. Lucas chairs the House Energy and Science Technology Committee …
ONEOK executives are part of a national conference underway this week in Las Vegas. They’re taking part in investor meetings at the Citi Midstream and New Energy Infrastructure Conference. The Tulsa-based company did not identify the executives.
