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Shareholders Approve Merger of Westar Energy and Great Plains Energy
Shareholders have given approval to the merger of Great Plains Energy Incorporated and Westar Energy, Inc., both in Kansas. Westar is considered the largest electric utility in the state and has 700,000 customers and 2,400 employees. Great Plains is the parent company of KCP and L and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. “Our shareholders’ support for the transaction …
UN Wants Work Stopped on Pipeline While Federal Judge Says Some Protesters are Hooligans
Now the U-N is getting involved in the oil pipeline fight in North Dakota as the U.N.s special envoy for the rights of indigenous people is calling for a halt to its construction. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz in Geneva, Switzerland wants work stopped on the Dakota Access pipeline, calling it a threat to drinking water supplies and …
ONG Awaits Hearing on Pipeline Explosion in Oklahoma City Residential Neighborhood
The filing has been made and now it is a matter of a hearing date to be set in the matter of the State Corporation Commission filing a complaint against Oklahoma Natural Gas nearly 9 months after three people were injured in a January pipeline explosion in Oklahoma City. The filing of the complaint was …
Montana Frac Rules Stay in Place—-Energy Companies Won’t be Forced to Reveal More Details of Chemicals
About the same time Continental Resources founder Harold Hamm told an Energy Insight conference in Pittsburgh, “Don’t call me the ‘F’ word,” fracking opponents lost a bid in Montana to force energy companies to reveal more information about their fracking chemicals. Regulators in Montana turned back the push by the environmentalists, health advocates and even …
Pipeline Builder Buys Ranch Near Site of North Dakota Protests
While Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners has been busy fighting protesters as well as the federal government over its construction of a nearly $4 billion pipeline in North Dakota, the firm has been buying a 6,000 acre ranch near the protest sites. A report said the company confirmed the purchase but is not offering any other …
Some See a Recovery Underway for Oil and Gas
Recovery in the oil and gas sector? Some reports suggest it is happening following the past two rough years of a downturn, according to a published report in The Tulsa World. Over the weekend, the newspaper quoted some analyst and industry officials who expressed optimism in the market. “Recently, some E and P companies have …
Royalty Fights Grow for Chesapeake Energy in Pennsylvania
Chesapeake Energy’s legal fights over natural gas royalties are growing in Pennsylvania. Landowners in the state continue to complain they are being underpaid by Chesapeakie which is one of the state’s largest drillers, according to State Impact and National Public Radio. Many of the complaints come from landowners in Pennsylvania’s Bradford County where Chesapeake Energy …
Large Gas Well Reported in SCOOP
The state’s STACK and SCOOP plays have produced another massive gas well. This time, Marathon Oil based in Houston, Texas reports combination oil and gas well in Blaine County which is one of the three primary counties comprising the STACK. The KNAPP family well is located west of highway US 270 near the little community …
Hamm Objects to Being Called the “F” Word
Oklahoma oilman Harold Hamm certainly got the attention of an energy conference this week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he told the crowd he didn’t like being called a “fracker.” “I’m not putting up with it,” declared Hamm in his keynote address to the Shale Insight conference. “It’s time to stop. We have a very proud …
Ten Appeals Court Judges Set to hear Oklahoma’s Challenge to EPA’s Clean Power Plan
When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit holds its hearing Tuesday on the legal challenge of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, all but one of the judges will be there. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland will miss the en banc review of the regulatory plan that has been challenged by Oklahoma and …