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Boeing to Dedicate New $80 million Plant Next to Tinker Air Force Base
A year after breaking ground, Boeing’s getting ready for a ceremonial ribbon cutting at its new $80,000,000 facility in Oklahoma City. Governor Mary Fallin will help take part in Friday morning’s event dedicating Boeing’s new engineering, research and development lab. Building 84-301 is located at 6811 SE 59th street and the ceremony will begin at …
House Rushes to Finish $32 billion EPA Spending Bill
It was a late Tuesday night for U.S. Representatives as they worked on the $32 billion Interior-EPA spending bill. Forty-five amendments were handled by the time the gavel was sounded, according to a report from Politico’s Morning Energy Report. One item that did pass was a move to clamp down on monitoring water quality in …
How a Businessman Man Conned U.S. Out of Millions in a Phony Biodiesel Operation
How did a Guatamalen-born businessman swindle the U.S. out of millions of dollars under a government program aimed at increasing the production of biodiesel fuel? Bloomberg reports how Philip Rivkin, founder of a phony company named Green Diesel was able to do it, and now sits in a U.S. prison in Texas where he’s serving …
US Supply of Ethanol Slips While Production Increases
Stocks of ethanol in the U.S. fell by 2 percent over the past week, according to a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Production averaged 1.004 million barrels a day in the past week which translates into 42.17 million gallons daily. That’s an increase of 20,000 barrels a day in production from the previous …
Trump Endorsed by American Energy Alliance
The American-Energy Alliance is doing a first—its first ever endorsement of a political candidate. It’s endorsing Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. The AEA is the advocacy arm of the conservative Institute for Energy Research and proclaimed that if Trump were to win the White House he would undo President Obama’s policies that have …
Devon Nears Sale of Its Stake in Canada’s Access Pipeline
Oklahoma City’s Devon Energy’s close to selling its 50 percent stake in the Access Pipeline in Western Canada according to a report by Bloomberg. Wolf Infrastructure, a midstream oil and gas firm backed by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is about to complete the deal that could be worth as much as $1.2 billion …
Experts Gather to Study Weather Drones
Dozens of representatives from Oklahoma State University and three other universities taking part in a $6 million dollar study of drones and their use in weather research met recently in Stillwater. About 65 faculty and students are working under a $6 million federal government grant to develop unmanned aerial systems for weather research. The program …
OSU Professors Receive $5 million Grant to Study Imperiled Plants
A $5.5 million grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is going to two Oklahoma State University professors of integrative biology to study ways to protect imperiled species. Kristen Baum and Monica Papes will work with a researcher at the University of Texas in Austin on a 3-year project on pollinator habitation restoration in Oklahoma …
Tulsa Gets $300,000 Grant to Clean up Pollution Sites
The city of Tulsa is getting a $300,000 federal grant to clean up old pollution sites known as Brownfield locations. U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee noted how Tulsa has used Brownfield grants in the past to clean up sites that led to the construction of the BOK …
WPX Energy Site Afire in New Mexico
Nearly three dozen oil storage tanks remained burning Tuesday at a new WPX Energy site in northwestern New Mexico. The fire broke out late Monday night near the small community of Nageezi where 36 oil storage tanks caught fire, prompting a shutdown of the WPX Energy operation. Evacuations of neighboring homes were made. About 50 …