One of the largest utilities in Texas, AEP announced it will begin a three-year plan to do more for the prevention of wildfires. Calling itself “one of the fastest growing transmission & distribution utility companies in Texas,” the company has a service area from the Panhandle in the north to the Rio Grande …
After finishing 2024 with its highest total corporation production volumes for a full calendar year since 2019, PHX Minerals Inc. in Fort Worth plans to release its first quarter financial results. The company, with core production efforts in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, North Dakota and Arkansas, will release the results after the close of …
Only three of the nation’s oil and gas plays saw increased drilling activity in the past week, according to the latest Baker Hughes rig count, and two of them are in Oklahoma. The Nation’s rig count grew by 2 to reach 587 rigs and increases were recorded in the Granite Wash of Oklahoma …
The Coloradans pushing for a passenger rail project along the state’s Front Range were shocked this month when they learned Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert opposed the project. Plus, she asked the Trump Administration’s DOGE or Department of Government Efficiency to yank funding for the proposed passenger rail service from Fort Collins …
One wind farm supporter cautions admist the heated discussion in Oklahoma about the wind industry, don’t let emotions get ahead of the facts. The cautionary advice come from Dustin Ratliff who grew up on a farm near Marland in northern Oklahoma and is now the lead technician atthe Thunder Ranch wind farm. Writing in …
Devastated by a deadly EF-4 tornado a year ago, the southern Oklahoma City of Marietta has renewed high hopes of rebounding from the storm that destroyed a Dollar Tree distribution center. Gone is the massive structure that once looked like Mother Nature left a giant claw mark across it but now Marietta received …
Kansas Corporation Commissioners say they hope to have a decision by early July on a controversial proposal under a new state law that is similar to one opposed by Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners. Under the year-old Kansas law, utility company Evergy wants authority to construct two new natural gas plants, but it faced opposition …
A gathering of Trump administration leaders in Oklahoma City. It’s a topic when Scott Mitchell talks energy with Jerry Bohnen. Plus, the fate of a wind tower setback bill and what it might mean at the legislature.
Homeowners who sued the Oklahoma Department of Transportation for creating a dumpsite that they contend polluted their little private lake lost their appeal to the Court of Civil Appeals. The residents around Lake Theisen located north of Tulsa said the dumpsite debris and silt runoff polluted their lake after the dumpsite was created …
Twenty projects totaling $39.6 million for high-speed internet expansion in 14 counties were officially launched Friday morning in Lone Wolf by the Oklahoma Broadband Office (OBO) and internet service provider Resound Networks. The projects, funded through $21.1 million in federal grants administered by the OBO coupled with $18.5 million in matching contributions from Resound, …
