For a second straight session this week, crude oil prices finished lower in trading. Plus, Oklahoma energy stocks finished deep in negative territory. Analysts explained it was a sign the market is ignoring President Trump’s threats of more sanctions against Russia and countries that buy oil from it. West Texas Intermediate crude fell …
Oklahoma City-based LSB Industries, developer of fertilizer and carbon capture efforts, plans a release of its second quarter financial report toward the end of July. The firm announced its intentions to release the financial results after the close of the stock market on Tuesday, July 29. LSB’s management will host a conference call on …
The opening of the first new rare earth elements mine in the U.S. in 70 years took place this week in Wyoming. Gov. Mark Gordon and U.S. Sens. John barrasso and Cynthia Lummis welcomed Energy Secretary Christ Wright to Ramaco’s Brook Mine near Ranchester, Wyoming. The mine was also the first new coal mine …
An Arkansas company has created a method of combatting the existence of those “forever” chemicals. Montrose Environmental Group, through a subsidiary called ECT2 in Little Rock has developed advance PFAS treatment technologies. Its creation involves the use of a foam fractionation process that can capture and concentrates PFAS from water using air injection reported …
In the latest podcast of Scott Mitchell talks energy with Jerry Bohnen, they focus on solar farms and EV futures and much more. What? Even Lawrence Welk?
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is preparing to take up the agency’s statewide proration formula for unallocated gas wells. The Commissioners will hold a special meeting at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 23 to to discuss the forumula as it applies for the period of Oct. 1, 2025 through Sept. 30, 2026. The three …
Oklahoma regulators plan a Wednesday meeting to handle some routine business matters. One of them is the setting of a date for a public hearing on purchased power adjustment clauses and fuel procurement processes for 2024 of Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative, Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative, Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative, Rich Mountain Electric Cooperative …
“What is unclear is why the state built the first bridge with its mistakes in 2001, then three years later, did the same thing on the second bridge.” A $72 million Oklahoma Turnpike Authority project to fix a roller coaster stretch of the Creek Turnpike over Haikey Creek isn’t the first time the OTA …
Oklahomans who have complained about the soaring rates of electricity are supported by news that electricity price inflation is also going up dramatically. So much so, it is outpacing the overall Consumer Price Index (CPI), according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. On an annualized basis, electricity price inflation rose …
Oklahoma leaders could only watch with envy Monday (if they were watching) as the $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery plant was formally opened with a grand ceremony in the Kansas City suburb of DeSoto, Kansas. Recall, Oklahoma was a finalist when Panasonic chose Kansas to locate the $4 billion, 4.7 million-square-foot-plant where an …
