Just a few weeks after Moore State Rep. Kevin West apparently lost his bid for House approval of a move to lock Oklahoma into standard time and stop the changing of clocks twice a year, maybe his call is getting a resurrection in Congress. It’s been reported Democrats and Republicans are joining forces …
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Increased natural gas production in Eagle Ford region
Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook, April 2025 While some energy firms have in recent years stepped away from their oil drilling exploration in the Eagle Ford region of South Texas, most notably Expand Energy and its sale of assets there, the federal government reports there has been an increase in natural gas production …
New Mexico congressional delegation fears Trump administration will approve drilling near Chaco Historical Park
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) reintroduced the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act, legislation to protect Chaco Canyon and the greater sacred landscape surrounding …
Energy briefs
** BP has made an oil discovery at the Far South field in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, it said on Monday, as the energy major seeks to grow production under a strategy reset announced earlier this year. The exploration well was drilled in Green Canyon Block 584 about 120 miles (193.12 km) off the coast of …
Protecting ratepayers as Data Center growth puts more pressure on electric grids
We’ve written numerous times how the growth of data centers in Oklahoma and across the country has created pressure on electric grids and utilities to come up with more power. It has even prompted northeastern states to change their minds to some extent about the use of natural gas. Where they once opposed it, …
Oklahoma’s Airport of the Year is Stillwater Regional
The news website Stillwegian reports how the Stillwater airport has soared to new heights with top honors from the Oklahoma Airport Operators Association. The group named the airport “Airport of the Year” and honored it for “outstanding leadership and contributions amid ambitious expansion plans.” Stillwegian also reported that airport director Kellie Reed also earned …
Mammoth Energy makes $109 million sale of subsidiaries
Mammoth Energy Services, Inc. announced that its subsidiary Lion Power Services LLC has completed a transaction to sell all equity interests in its wholly-owned subsidiaries 5 Star Electric, LLC, Higher Power Electrical, LLC and Python Equipment LLC , to Peak Utility Services Group, Inc. for an aggregate sales price of $108.7 million. At the …
Keystone pipeline to resume deliveries in North Dakota
The Keystone Pipeline is under orders of federal regulators to take several corrective steps following last week’s pipeline spill of 147,000 gallons of oil onto North Dakota farmland. Operator South Bow had said it intended to resume deliveries to refineries on Tuesday but the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration first ordered testing of …
Oklahoma’s Cana Woodford remains active
The exploration in Oklahoma’s oil and gas plays remained steady in the past week, based on the most recent rig count released by Baker Hughes Co. The company’s release showed the Cana Woodford count dropped by one one rig leaving 18 others active in the pursuit of oil and gas. Also known as …
Legislators file another Supreme Court challenge of Commissioner Todd Hiett
Another lawsuit has been filed with the Oklahoma Supreme Court by State Rep. Tom Gann in his bid to stop Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett from voting in rate cases and fuel adjustment matters for utilities. He was joined by Rep. Kevin West in a suit filed in the past several days regarding Hiett’s participation …