While Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett faces calls to resign over the allegations he drunkenly groped a man, Hiett contends he is undergoing treatment for his alcoholism. It’s what he first maintained in late July when the story came to light involving his alleged groping of a man at a hotel bar in Minneapolis, …
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Williston Basin investment paying off for Empire Petroleum
Starbuck is giving a shot in the arm to Tulsa’s Empire Petroleum company. Not the Starbucks drive-in coffee place but the Starbuck oil play in North Dakota. Empire indicated in its second quarter financial report that it saw big increases and gains in oil production from the play. Big increases indeed. Empire stated the …
Half of the US LNG comes from Cheniere Energy
A new report by Cheniere Energy, Inc. claims the company now produces 50% of U.S. liquid natural gas and at the same time is a leading supplier to Europe. The claim is part of Cheniere’s 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report titled “Energy Secured, Benefits Delivered.” Cheniere has a heavy presence in Oklahoma where it obtains …
Gov. Stitt to be part of Southern States Energy Board conference
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is one of four governors scheduled to speak next month in the 64th annual meeting of the Souther States Energy Board. The conference will be held in Chattanooga, Tennesse September 22-24. The theme of the conference is “Powering Prosperity: Driving the South’s Abundant Energy Renaissance.” Stitt is one of four …
GM accused of creating secret driving data and selling to insurers
The state of Texas has gone to court against General Motors claiming the automaker installed technology on millions of vehicles to collect secret data about drivers. The lawsuit contends GM then sold the data to insurers and other companies and the drivers were unaware of it. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the …
Energy briefs
** Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird led a coalition of eight state attorneys general in filing a court brief supporting Ohio’s lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over California’s electric vehicle mandates. Bird is joined by the Republican attorneys general from the states of Idaho, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and …
Chinese connections to hydroelectric project on Kiamichi River anger Congressman
The Chinese connection first reported by the Southwest Ledger concerning a controversial proposed hydroelectric power project along the Kiamichi River in southeast Oklahoma caught the attention of Congressman Josh Brecheen. As a result, he came out this week against the project proposed by the Southeast Oklahoma Power Corporation’s project in LeFlore and Pushmataha Counties, …
Twenty to lose their jobs in Bartlesville in employment cuts by Phillips 66
Bartlesville, once the headquarters for Phillips 66, got some troubling news this week when the oil company, now headquartered in Houston, confirmed the layoffs of 20 workers at the Oklahoma facilities. The company announced last week there would be a round of layoffs at different operations but its Bartlesville Business and Innovation Center …
Surprise surge in crude stocks sent crude prices falling
Crude oil prices dropped 1% in Wednesday’s trading, largely because of an unexpected surge in U.S. crude inventories and further easing of worries about an all-out war in the Middle East between Iran and its allies against Israel. US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate dropped $1.37 or 1.8% to settle at $76.98 a barrel on the …
Texas gas company says AG’s fraud lawsuit should not be heard in Osage County
A Houston company sued by Attorney General Gentner Drummond and accused of fraud over historic high natural gas prices during Winter Storm Yuri in 2021 is asking an Osage County Judge to transfer the case to Texas. Symmetry Energy Solutions, LLC maintains the lawsuit filed in April on behalf of the Grand River …