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Federal prison time for Dakota Access pipeline protester
A Colorado woman who fired a gun during the 2016 Dakota Access oil pipeline protests in North Dakota is headed to prison. Red Fawn Fallis, 39 was sentenced Wednesday to four years and nine months in federal prison. It was Oct. 27, 2016 as she resisted arrest that Fallis fired a handgun three times. A …
Senator Lankford says Oklahomans are being hurt in trade war
Start settling some of these agreements. It’s the advice Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford is telling the Trump administration as the tariff war waged by the President is harming businesses in Oklahoma and the rest of the country. “I can’t tell when it will end,” said the Senator in an interview with OK Energy Today. …
Permian Basin pipeline demand prompts company to change plans
Trying to take advantage of the massive crude oil production in the Permian Basin, another West Texas pipeline and storage company is expanding a pipeline that’s already under construction. Oryx Midstream Services II, based in Midland, Texas announced it will add 180 miles to the regional crude oil system that’s being built. When it’s finished, …
ONEOK to release earnings report end of July
ONEOK plans to release its second quarter 2018 earnings on July 31. The release will be made after the closing of the markets. Then the next day, Aug. 1 at 10 a.m. Central Time, company executives will take part in a conference call. The company’s first-quarter 2018 financial results saw growth as the company credited …
ConocoPhillips expands board of directors with new appointee
The board of directors at ConocoPhillips has been expanded with this week’s election of Jeffrey A. Joerres to the board. He was chief executive office of Manpower Group Inc. from 1999 to 2014 and was chairman of the board from 2001 to 2014. Joerres joined Manpower Group in 1993 and was vice president of Marketing …
Quarterly dividend reported by ConocoPhillilps
ConocoPhillips is reporting a quarterly dividend of 28.5 cents a share. The company said it will be payable Sept. 4, 2018 to stockholders of record at the close of business on July 23, 2018.
Williams to release 2nd Quarter earnings report Aug. 1
Tulsa’s Williams and Williams Partners plan to announce their second-quarter 2018 financial results in a few weeks. The release will be made after the close of markets on Wednesday, Aug. 1. Company leadership plans to hold a joint Q and Q live webcast the next morning at 8:30 Central Time. The focus will be on …
Aides follow Pruitt out of Washington
Scott Pruitt isn’t the only one to pack his bags and leave the Environmental Protection Agency in the past week. Some of his aides apparently have followed the doctrine of “where you go, I go.” With the former Oklahoma Attorney General’s departure last week as EPA Administrator, some of his top assistants have departed too. …
Pruitt’s successor defends his coal lobbying past
The man who succeeded Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, delivered his first address to employees and the media on Wednesday. At he quickly went off script and addressed his prior work with the coal industry. “I did work for a coal company and I’m not ashamed of the work …
Frack sand trucker on cellphone at time of deadly crash near Yukon
Police in Yukon, Oklahoma indicate the frac sand truck driver killed in a crash last week was talking on her cellphone at the time of the July 5th incident. Paula Jo Black of Sulphur Springs, Texas was killed when the Tex-Sand Inc. truck crashed into a ditch off State Highway 4 just north of Yukon …