The weekend decision by OPEC+ to extend its deep oil output cuts into the coming year sent crude oil prices tumbling by more than $2 a barrel in Monday’s trading. Trading sent prices down to new lows as West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark fell nearly 4%. OPEC and allies led by Russia have …
Southwest Power Pool (SPP), responsible for coordinating electric reliability in a 14-state area in the central United States, including Oklahoma, expects to have enough generation to meet energy demand despite higher regional temperatures this summer. “As a regional transmission organization, SPP’s top priority is to ensure reliability” said Bruce Rew, SPP senior vice …
One of two bills directly affecting Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners made it through the legislature and was signed into law while the other died quietly in a committee. One bill will exclude the public and close the door on certain discussions. What passed? A measure called the Corporation Commission Efficiency Act. The measure that will …
If Texas were a separate country, it would be the third largest oil producer in the world. It was the focus of an interesting part of the daily column produced by economist Steve Moore and his Committee to Unleash Prosperity. Moore recently wrote that the claim was verified by the latest annual oil prodution figures …
Two U.S. Representatives from Colorado and Wyoming have taken on a fight against the Biden administration’s efforts to curtail oil and gas production on federal lands in their states. Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Harriet Hageman of Wyoming announced the introduction of a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to …
Oklahoma Gas and Electric is cooperating again with the Oklahoma City Zoo and the group Read for Adventure in the 8th year of a reading encouragement and library program. Beginning this week, the program that encourages students to read while at the same time helping to create monarch butterfly gardens, got underway at more …
Oklahoma City’s Continental Resources company recently lost an appeals court case in North Dakota after being sued over a horizontal wastewater disposal well. As Justia US Law reported, the case involves Continental Resources, Inc., an Oklahoma oil and gas company, and Rick and Rosella Fisher, who own a farm in North Dakota. Continental …
It took eleven years for the state of Arkansas along with the federal government to take legal action, but on Friday, they sued ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. for the 2013 Pegasus oil pipeline leak that flooded the city of Mayflower with crude oil. And already a settlement is in the works and paperwork could …
(Frank Morris–Harvest Public Media) It’s called agrivoltaics—the coexistance of solar farming with production agriculture. As solar farming spreads radidly, it’s consuming valuable farm land in some instances. But in more and more cases, livestock are being allowed to graze and roam under higher placed solar panels. A site north of Lawrence, Kansas is one example …
** Elon Musk’s Tesla is not the only electric vehicle company laying off workers en masse; one of its rivals, Lucid, announced last week that it’s laying off about 400 people, SFGate reports, more than a year after another round of layoffs that saw 1,300 people get the boot. ** An Iowa Republican congressional candidate says the government …
