The action of the U.S. to issue new Iran-related sanctions combined with rising tensions in the Middle East sent crude oil prices up nearly 2% in Thursday’s trading. Washington’s fourth round of sanctions on Iran’s oil sales since Donald Trump became President targeted for the first time a Chinese “teapot” or independent refinery as …
Southwest Power Pool (SPP) will soon be the first regional transmission organization (RTO) in the U.S. to provide full services in both the Eastern and Western Interconnections of the nation’s power grid. On March 20, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously approved Southwest Power Pool’s amended tariff that includes provisions enabling Western members …
This week’s decision by a North Dakota jury to hold Greenpeace liable for $660 million damages to Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access pipeline during protests several years ago has civil rights attorneys saying it will have a chilling effect on public protest. One attorney said it was a loss for the First Amendment and the …
Hit with a jury’s decision to pay more than $660 million in damages for defamation of Energy Transfer company, Greenpeace says it has no intention of coughing up the money and will appeal this week’s decision by a North Dakota jury. “The fight against Big Oil is not over today,” Greenpeace International General …
When Williams CEO Alan Armstrong recently said he would not build a natural gas pipeline in New York and other New England states because of their past opposition to natural gas, he was speaking from experience. And he doesn’t like what he remembers who his firm was treated by those states. He vowed not …
Despite a drop in the strong winds that hit 70 mph in some areas of Oklahoma on Wednesday, firefighters still anticipate a weekend of potentially more wildfires in the state. A Thursday report by the Oklahoma Forestry Services stated that conditions continue to degrade “posing significant resistance to control” and not requiring the kind …
** A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over its role in months-long protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017. ** A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three climate groups …
Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm was among the oil executives who met with President Trump Wednesday at the White House where they discussed his plans to increase domestic energy production. Hamm, founder and CEO of Continental Resources and one of Trump’s biggest political donors joined other executives in their first sit-down with the President …
A $36 million project near Russell, Kansas is the latest solar farm to go operation in the state of Kansas. Owned by Sunflower Electric Power Corporation, the 143-acre solar project is made up of more than 44,000 solar panels. A report in the Great Bend Tribune indicated the power company announced the completion …
APA Corp., the company formerly known as Apache confirms it cut about 300 employees from its global workforce which amounts to a nearly 15% reduction. It still has about 2,000 employees. APA, with operations from the Permian Basin to the North Sea, had been criticized by investors for being stretched too thin. Click here …
