Four years after Steve Martinez took part in the violent protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, he has been jailed a second time for refusing to testify before a North Dakota federal grand jury probing the incidents. In addition to more jail time, Martinez was also hit with a daily fine according to the …
New Mexico Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland won the support of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in her bid by the Biden administration to become the new Interior Secretary. It is still not known how one of Oklahoma’s two U.S. Senators will vote when it goes to the full senate. The vote was …
After the 2020 Oklahoma Oil & Gas Expo was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers say they plan to hold the expo October 14 at the State Fair Park Bennett Event Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hosted by Sustaining Oklahoma’s Energy Resources (SOER), a program under the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board …
Crude oil prices had another big jump in Thursday’s trading in apparent continued response to reports that OPEC+ might not increase its oil production from April as widely speculated. West Texas Intermediate crude for April delivery rose $2.55 finish the day at $63.83 a barrel. That’s a nearly 3-dollar-a-barrel increase since earlier in the …
It took Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford four tries before he could an answer from David Turk, the President’s nominee to be the Deputy Energy Secretary in a discussion about the future of fossil fuel powered vehicles. During Turk’s confirmation hearing on Thursday before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Sen. Lankford asked …
More than 10 days after Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and other state leaders promised to investigate the impact of historic frigid winter weather on Oklahomans’ power bills, it would appear there is little progress publicly known. At least one State House Committee tasked with exploring ways to help consumers avoid possible catastrophic utility bills …
Legislators in Kansas are racing to help towns and ratepayers facing out-of-sight utility bills following the bitter cold weather that hit the state last month. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported how legislators fast-tracked a measure to provide loans to small towns and municipalities so they can pat bills in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. …
Oil and gas drilling operations in Oklahoma reportedly fell in the past week but a new report by the Austin-based Enverus Rig Analytics showed a total U.S. rig count increase of 19 as of this week. The company reported the increase put the rig count at 468, an increase of nearly 5% over the …
The record plunge in gasoline stockpiles last week across the U.S. is threatening more and more motorists with $3 gasoline for the first time in six years and prices in Oklahoma are moving closer to the high price. Reports show gasoline inventories fell by 13.6 million barrels after the winter storm that pounded Oklahoma, …
CVR Energy, the owner of the Wynnewood Refinery in southern Oklahoma and other refineries across the country recently reported a fourth quarter 2020 net loss of $67 million or 67 cents a diluted share. For all of 2020, the company had a net loss of $256 million or $2.54 a diluted share. The …
