August 17, 2024 archive

Dividend declared by Halliburton

  Halliburton Company announced that its board of directors has declared a 2024 third quarter dividend of seventeen cents ($0.17) a share on the Company’s common stock payable on September 25, 2024, to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 4, 2024. Headquartered in Houston, Halliburton has major offices in Duncan in …

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Kansas and Nebraska about to fight over the Silver Carp

  Kansas and Nebraska are in another water fight. This time, its about what’s in the Platte River—the highly invasion Asian carp species called Silver Carp. Nebraska has a plan known as the Platte-Republican diversion which would mean the carp would be allowed to enter the Republican river which flows into Kansas. Kansas Gov. Laura …

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Crude fell Friday…will it regain strength this week?

  Falling crude oil prices on Friday took Oklahoma energy stocks down with them. Crude dropped nearly 2% as Brent crude dropped again below $80 a barrel. Investors didn’t like the news about demand growth from top oil importer China. As trading starts this week, the question is whether there might be a rebound in …

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Thousands remain without power following storms in eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas

    Weekend storms that packed 70 mph winds caused weekend power outages for OG&E operations in eastern Oklahoma, leaving more than 9,100 customers without power as of Saturday morning, down from a peak of more than 20,000.’ By Saturday night, nearly 87% of those who lost power had it restored, according to OGE. The …

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Energy briefs

** A century-old rail lift bridge that crosses the U.S.-Canada border near the cities of International Falls, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario, has collapsed, and it’s unclear when the area will reopen to water traffic along the Rainy River. No trains were involved, and no one was injured in Wednesday’s collapse, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. ** …

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Landowners speak out against federal transmission line proposed in Kansas

  Proposed federal transmission lines that would event stretch across Oklahoma and at the same time involve the controversial Grain Belt wind transmission line in Kansas aren’t being accepted with open arms in southwest Kansas. Residents around Larned, including land-owners, raised their voices in objection at a recent public meeting. Some felt they were left …

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