November 2024 archive

3Q earnings report coming from Mach Natural Resources

    Third quarter earnings by Oklahoma City’s Mach Natural resources LP will be released next week. The release will be on Tuesday, Nov. 12 after the closing of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The earnings release for the third-quarter 2024 results will be available on the Company’s website at https://ir.machnr.com. The Company will …

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Tulsa’s Spirit Aerosystems plant at play in survivability of company

    “Substantial doubt.” It’s what Spirit AeroSystems says about its ability to remain in business. The Wichita, Kansas-based company is a key supplier to US planemaker Boeing and has a major operation in Tulsa, where 5 years ago, it hired 250 more employees and invested more than $80 million in capital projects. The Spirit …

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Energy briefs

** Diamondback Energy Inc., the largest independent oil and gas producer in the Permian Basin, warned that the US shale industry may be growing to its own detriment again. The company is planning to hold its own output growth to 2% next year and said it can be flexible with spending if the oil market …

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Bingman ready for “hard work” at Corporation Commission

    Brian Bingman didn’t get a million votes in his bid to become Oklahoma’s newest Corporation Commissioner, but he came close. The final unofficial count, according to the Oklahoma Election Board, gave the former state Senate President a total of 978,870 votes or 63.68% of the 1,537,252 votes cast in the statewide election. He …

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Bingman wins Corporation Commission seat

    With more than 91% of Oklahoma’s precincts reporting late Tuesday night, Republican Brian Bingman had a strong lead in winning the Oklahoma Corporation Commission seat. The former state Senate President pro tempore will replace long time commissioner Bob Anthony in January of 2025. Bingman had amassed 885,801 votes out of the total of …

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Judy Love, co-founder of Love’s store chain dies at 87

  Judy Love, who along with her late husband, Tom Love, founded Love’s Travel Stops died Tuesday. She was 87. The company announced her death on its website. Alongside her late husband, Tom Love, Judy was instrumental in building their family-owned business, Love’s Travel Stops, which they founded in 1964 with a $5,000 loan. Judy’s …

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Tropical storm threat prompts jump in crude oil prices

  The latest Gulf of Mexico storm sent crude oil prices up nearly 1% on Tuesday. Tropical Storm Rafael has already forced oil companies to begin evacuations of operations in the Gulf and could result in some 4.9 million barrels of oil production a day being taken offline. It might do the same with natural …

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Regulators to examine wooden utility pole standards

  Stronger requirements for utility poles? It’s a question being explored by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission as it considers utility pole requirements across the state. Commissioners will meet Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.and one of the items on the agenda is a state request to further explore the matter. The item refers to “Inquiry of the …

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Next stop for anti-ESG Act in Oklahoma—the State Supreme Court

  Housekeeping, in a manner of speaking, has taken place in the lawsuit that resulted in a suspension of the enforcement of Oklahoma’s anti-ESG Act and a recent court ruling against the two-year old law. Shortly after Oklahoma County District Judge Sheila Stinson granted summary judgment in retiree Don Keenan’s lawsuit against the Oklahoma Energy …

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Most OGE customers see power restored following tornadoes

  Most of the Oklahoma City residents who suffered tornado damage and lost electrical power on Sunday had it restored by mid-day Tuesday. Oklahoma Gas and Electric, in a storm update released Tuesday indicated 98% of the estimated 80,000 customers who lost power had their lights back on. The total included those who lost power …

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