When oil and gas drilling rigs aren’t active in the patch, they’re usually headed to storage yards and in the past week, the nation saw more of them transferred there. The nation’s total number of active oil and rigs plunged by 6 in the past week, falling to 542, according to the Baker …
** The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing an oil tanker in international waters near Venezuela, officials told Reuters on Sunday, in what would be the second such operation this weekend and the third in less than a week. ** A second oil tanker was seized by the U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday off the coast of …
A federal judge’s ruling in Oklahoma’s more than 20-year lawsuit against several poultry companies accused of polluting rivers and streams held the firms responsible for the pollution of the Illinois River in the eastern part of the state. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frizzell was against Tyson Foods, Simmons Foods, Cobb-Vantress, Cal-Maine …
A published report claims city officials in Coweta knew about a data center last year wanting to build in their city even as they told residents a request had been made but no discussions were held. The Broken Arrow Sentinel reported the leaders knew a year before the public announcement of the proposed data center. …
Two years after breaking ground for a proposed nickel refinery in Lawton, Westwin Elements is backing out of the deal. It recently notified Lawton city leaders it will not be building a larger commercial plant after building a small-scale operation. The Lawton Constitution reported the Lawton Economic Development Authority approved a joint resolution …
The same windy conditions that raked Oklahoma last week were also responsible for 100 mile an hour winds in Colorado where they blew up some criticism from Xcel Energy’s leader for Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, calling him “uninformed.” The utility’s move to be overly cautious to avoid a repeat of the deadly fires that destroyed …
An employee of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) who is believed to have dropped out of college as a sophomore has been performing audits of utility companies collectively worth more than a billion dollars, a new brief filed at the Oklahoma Supreme Court reveals. Reps. Tom Gann, R-Inola, Kevin West, R-Moore, and Rick West, …
From Arkansas Business Morning Roundup We’ve closely followed the lithium developments in the Smackover play of southern Arkansas and now there’s a report how one such company recently attracted more than $1 billion in financing interest. Smackover Lithium drew the interest, according to Arkansas Business as it attributed the report to Reuters. Owned jointly …
Refinery proposal resurfaces after nearly a decade After sitting largely dormant for nearly a decade, a proposal to build a new oil refinery in North Dakota has resurfaced in recent weeks as state officials consider potential investment options. According to reporting by the North Dakota Monitor, the Davis Refinery project appeared on a short list …
New pipeline discussion emerges years after Keystone XL Four years after former U.S. President Joe Biden halted the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, discussion has resurfaced around the possibility of a new Canadian oil pipeline, according to reporting by OilPrice.com. Keystone XL was designed to transport crude oil from Alberta, one of the world’s most oil-rich …
