Oklahoma started off 2025 with gasoline prices averaging $2.57 a gallon, a dime cheaper than one year ago. The American Automobile Association cited the average, saying it was the same price on the last day of 2024, a dime more than a month ago and ten cents cheaper than one year ago. However, …
While Oklahoma recently handed out $1 million in contracts to construct an EV charging network along Interstate 44, the state of Colorado just got another $17 million boost to its charging network. Colorado’s efforts to become a green-oriented state are far more than those in Oklahoma, Kansas and adjacent states. Colorado received $17.3 million …
Within a few weeks, the U.S. can expect the launching of an anti-Green New Deal—President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to disassemble the Biden administration’s program of attacking the fossil fuel industry. The impact it will have on Oklahoma’s energy industry could be noticeable. Biden’s freeze on LNG shipments to foreign allies affected the natural gas …
Crude oil prices finished the last day of 2024 with about 1% gains but for the year, both benchmarks were down about 3%. It was the second consecutive year for crude oil prices to close a year with losses. Brent finished the year down about 3% compared to 2022 while WTI was about …
(AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo, File) What a way to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Puerto Rico…..nearly the entire country lost electrical power. More than a million customers were without power after the outage struck the country at dawn. Hopes for a quick return of electrical power were dashed by officials who said it might take two …
The court fight by Cimarron Link against several landowners in Garfield County apparently has ended. Cimarron Link, the subsidiary of Invenergy had sued the landowners who had refused to allow its surveyors onto their land as the firm made plans to construction a large transmission line from the Panhandle to eastern Oklahoma. OK …
Power outages. To homeowners and businesses, there might be nothing more troublesome than losing electrical power, whether it’s due to severe weather or to a traffic accident taking down a power pole. A report filed earlier this year with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission showed an average utility customer in the state experienced an average …
A new report from researchers claims that methane gas emissions in the Permian Basin nose-dived 26% in 2023 from the previous year. The claim comes from analysts at S&P Global Commodity Insights who studied the methane gas emissions that have been the focus of federal agencies as well as environmental organizations critical of the …
Former longtime Administrative Law Judge at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Patricia Alice Dougherty MacGuigan died the day after Christmas. She served as an ALJ with the Corporation Commission’s Oil and Gas Division from 2003 to 2021. MacGuigan earlier had been a judge and presiding judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, serving from …
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board is moving to speed up and also make easier its permitting process. In a recent announcement, the OWRB said because of new legislation regarding water rights administration in the state, it was ” increasing our capacity to speed up water right application processes and legal proceedings, streamline water use reporting …
