Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is wasting little time in boosting nuclear energy development in his state, opening a $350 million program Wednesday to allow nuclear developers to apply for new state funding. It’s a move to bring more power generation online to meet the expected demand for power from data centers. He calls it the Texas …
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Google pushes data center growth with natural gas
As Google marches forward with plans for more data centers in Oklahoma, the company is also expanding data center efforts nationwide and intends to rely on natural gas to power them. In a big way. For example, a report this week by Cleanview, a market intelligence platform, revealed how Google plans partnering to construct a …
Annual meeting date set for OGE
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company plans to hold its annual meeting of shareholders in mid-May. The company, in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, announced the meeting will be a “virtual-only” format with no physical location on Thursday, May 21 at 9 a.m. Shareholders were informed they would not be able to …
Power grid adds 7 more states
The Southwest Power Pool says it has finished a successful expansion of its service territory from the Midwest into the Western Interconnection of the nation’s power grid. It means the SPP, which originally included Oklahoma and 13 other states stretching north to North Dakota, now includes states in the far western reaches of the nation, …
Harold Hamm says oil prices will eventually fall
Oklahoma’s “go-to” oil guy, Harold Hamm, founder and chair of Continental Resources Company believes the world’s high oil prices will eventually decline as the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran eventually ends. “ I think oil will come back down. Oil prices will moderate again. And we should expect that,” said Hamm in an interview Thursday …
US recorded increase in oil and gas rigs—Oklahoma was unchanged
The U.S. saw a gain of 5 oil and gas rigs in the past week to reach a total of 548 while Oklahoma’s count was unchanged from the previous week, according to the Baker Hughes Rig Count released Thursday. The report indicated Oklahoma held steady with a count of 44 rigs throughout the state. …
Oil prices fall as Trump talks of end to war against Iran
Crude oil prices fell nearly 3% Wednesday after President Donald Trump signalized the U.S. might soon wind down its military operations against Iran. He also threatened to quit NATO over its lack of support in the Middle East operation. “I can’t tell you exactly … we’re going to be out pretty quickly,” Trump told …
Tax Commission confirms data breach of taxpayer’s files
An apparent large data breach occurred in the past few months in the files of the Oklahoma Tax Commission and notifications were sent out this week to those whose files might have been targeted. The Tax Commission started notifications just this past week but the breach was discovered in December of last year. Those who …
BLM Proposal Opens Chaco Land to Oil Drilling
April 2, 2026
BLM Proposal Opens Chaco Region to Oil and Gas Drilling The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) stirred up angry response from environmentalists and Native American leaders in New Mexico by proposing to open more than 300,000 acres of land to oil and gas drilling around the historic Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Public Comment Period …
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