Oklahoma utility regulators to meet Wednesday

  Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners will hold their first public meeting in more than a week when they gather Wednesday afternoon to receive reports and make some decisions on requests from utilities. The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m in the Concourse theater of the Will Rogers Memorial Office Building at the State Capitol Complex. The …

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Author—Biden has no one to blame but himself over failure to refill nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve

  While the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve sits well less than full because of the President’s decision to sell reserves to lower gasoline prices two years ago, he also suspended plans to refill the SPR—-prices are too high. One man writing in Real Clear Energy says President Biden has no one to blame but himself, …

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BLM might go back on its word for oil leases in New Mexico

    Three years after the federal government approved oil and gas drilling leases on nearly 6,000 acres of land in New Mexico, it is thinking of revoking the contracts. The Bureau of Land Management is reported to be reconsidering a plan to lease the land in question in Eddy and Lea Counties, two counties …

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Biden’s war on natural gas didn’t stop record use last year in the US

  Despite the work of the Biden administration and environmentalists against the use of natural gas, the U.S. had a record use of it in 2023. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported this week that in 2023, 89.1 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas was consumed in the U.S., the most on record. Since …

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Energy briefs

** For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity’s most distant spacecraft in the cosmos. Voyager 1 is currently about 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away, and at 46 years old, the probe has shown multiple …

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Kansas legislators hope to land car plant in Wichita

    Should Gov. Laua Kelly approve of a new budget sent to her by the Kansas Legislature, the state could use $200 million in economic development incentives to lure a possible car manufacturing plant to Wichita. The plant, according to the Kansas Reflector, would be located adjacent to the Wichita State University innovation campus. …

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Mammoth Energy investors hope for improved quarterly earnings

    First quarter financial results for Mammoth Energy Services, Inc. will be disclosed May 2 and investors wonder if they will see economic improvements for the company. The company will release them before the market opens on that Thursday, then leadership will gather for a 9 a.m. central time conference call to discuss the …

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Iowa legislators kill their ROFR attempts

  While the bill in the Oklahoma legislature that started out as a ROFR measure sits in a Senate Committee, opponents of any Right of First Refusal bill across the country observe the defeat of such a bill in Iowa. The Iowa legislature rejected the ROFR measure and Paul Cicio, chairman of the Electricity Transmission …

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PHX Minerals to release quarterly financial results

  Quarterly financial results from PHX Minerals Inc. will be released next month. The Fort Worth-based company will make known the results on Wednesday May 8 following the close of market. Company leaders plan to hold a conference call to discuss the results at 10 a.m. central time on May 9. Focusing its efforts on …

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Mitchell Talks Energy With Jerry Bohnen—podcast explores energy bills that aren’t really dead

  So you think some of the controversial bills in the Oklahoma legislature including the so-called ROFR/NOFR measure are dead? Think again as this week Scott Mitchell and Jerry Bohnen explain why the term ‘dead for the session’ is untrue and which energy-related bills deemed lifeless in April will likely regenerate in May. Plus a …

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