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Quarterly Distributions Announced for Tallgrass Energy Shareholders
Tallgrass Energy Partners, a Kansas City area based company that ships oil to the Cushing terminal in Oklahoma announced quarterly distributions this week for the second quarter of 2016. The distributions will be paid on Friday, Aug. 12 to unitholders and shareholders of record on the close of business on Friday, July 29, 2016. The …
Gasoline Prices Continue Their Drop in Oklahoma
Make it 24 straight days that national gasoline prices have dropped. AAA Oklahoma reported this week the national average is down to $2.27 a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline, three cents cheaper than a week ago and 9 cents less than a month ago. Oklahoma’s average is $2.05, a drop of about four cents in …
Congress Returns to Work on Energy Bills
With the FBI finally deciding that Hillary Clinton was pretty sloppy and careless in the handling of her emails as Secretary of State but not worthy of criminal charges, Congress is back at work. The House returned today as many Oklahoma Representatives spent the day making flights to D.C. Senators are back on Wednesday …
Inhofe Supported in his Fight with EPA Over Clean Power Plan
The EPA Must Respect the Supreme Court’s Authority Harry C. Alford | The Hill June 29, 2016 On June 9, 2016, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Janet McCabe, acting assistant administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), following up on an earlier …
A Move Toward Transparency in Federal Agencies
In a move aimed at identifying government waste and improving transparency, U.S. Sen. James Lankford and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) have introduced a bipartisan bill. They call it the Inspector General Recommendation Transparency Act that would fill a gap in federal management and help Congress do a better job overseeing 73 federal agencies where Inspectors …
Canada to Gain from US Decision to get Out of Helium Business
A decision by the U.S. government to get out of the commercial helium business in the next five years has refiners and customers looking to Canada to fill their helium needs. A majority of the U.S. helium demand is filled by an underground reserve in Amarillo, Texas. The reserve supplies everything from party balloons to …
Eastern New Mexico Wind Farm Gets New Owner
California-based Pattern Energy Group Inc., a firm with 17 wind farm operations around the world including two in Texas and one in Kansas is spending $269 million to buy a majority interest in a 324-megawatt wind farm in New Mexico. Pattern purchased an 84 percent initial cash flow for Broadview Wind located 30 miles north …
How a Frog Blocked Weyerhaeuser Industry From Logging in Louisiana
Weyerhaeuser Company, the firm with big operations in southeast Oklahoma just ran into a federal court ruling in Louisiana and it focuses on the endangered dusky gopher frog. The Fifth Circuit recently rejected the timber giant’s appeal of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to declare 1,600 acres of private property in Louisiana as …
Dallas Firm Sues Chesapeake Energy a Second Time
Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy has been hit again with a lawsuit charging irregularities in contracts covering royalties of hundreds of wells around Fort Worth, Texas. And the law firm that filed the suit is the same one that sued Chesapeake more than four months ago, accusing it of conspiring to rig bids for leases in …
Williams Cos. Board Moves Ahead Under New Leadership After Resignations
Now under the leadership of a new chairman of the board of directors, Tulsa'[s Williams Companies is moving ahead following the shakeup over the failed attempt to remove Alan Armstrong as Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Kathleen Cooper, a current director and Audit Committee member was named Chairman, replacing Frank T. MacInnis who resigned following …