The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a lifestyle change in the U.S. and with it came a boom in trucks. Lots of them are needed to carry goods from manufacturing sites to warehouses where in turn the products are delivered in the home-delivery industry. As Bloomberg reported this week, whether it’s champagne, Harley-Davidson motorcycles or …
Native American tribes protesting the continued operation of the Dakota Access oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota were disappointed as a federal judge gave the Army Corps of Engineers a second chance to determine if the line should be closed during an environmental review. The Associated Press reported …
Crude oil prices did a bounce back in Tuesday’s trading helping some Oklahoma energy stocks along the way. West Texas Intermediate crude for June delivery rose $1.03 to settle at $62.94 a barrel in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Global benchmark Brent crude for June delivery went up 77 cents and closed …
Oklahoma City’s Enable Midstream Partners, LP announced that the board of directors of its general partner declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.16525 per unit on all outstanding common units for the quarter ended March 31, 2021. The distribution is unchanged from the previous quarter. The quarterly cash distribution of $0.16525 per unit on …
Another big lawsuit popped up over the cost of natural gas delivered in the February winter storm in Texas. CPS Energy, a Texas gas and power utility was sued by oil and gas supplier Enterprise Products Partners because it allegedly failed to pay a nearly $100 million bill. Click here for Reuters report.
Tired of the hundreds of trucks that pass by their rural homes enroute to a sand mining and frack sand operation, two women near Texarkana, Arkansas have gone to court. The two Doddrige residents sued 29 trucking and other companies doing business at the River Ridge Sand Flat owned by Performance Proppants reported the …
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas was among attorneys general for 20 states and the District of Columbia urging congressional leaders to undo the Trump administration’s loosening of limits on methane emissions from oil and gas facilities. The Democratic Attorney General and others who signed the letter argued for the use of the …
** Three Democratic U.S. senators on Monday said they are introducing legislation that would require U.S. regulators to mandate installation of driver-monitoring systems to ensure motorists pay attention while using systems like Tesla’s Autopilot. ** Top oilfield services firm Schlumberger NV on Monday named new executives to energy transition units, according to a memo seen by Reuters, …
Doug Lawler is leaving as CEO at Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy Corporation and taking a chunk of change with him according to a late Tuesday filing the company made with the Securities Exchange Commission. The company announced his departure on Tuesday, saying it will be effective April 30, 2021. The announcement did not …
The case is HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, 20-472. It’s an important one for CVR Energy, operator of the Wynnewood Refinery in Southern Oklahoma because it is part of the case being heard this week by U.S. Supreme Court justices. As OK Energy Today has reported previously, Wynnewood Refinery and HollyFrontier …
