The oil and gas downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has struck another energy company in Oklahoma. Exterran Energy Solutions with operations in Broken Arrow is laying off 55 employees at the Oklahoma site. The Texas company notified the Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development stating that the layoffs will be effective March 15, 2021. …
The unveiling of the official portrait of former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt will be held Friday at EPA headquarters in Washington, DC. Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General who was picked by President Trump resigned in 2018 following a series of political missteps including criticism of his lavish travel and treatment of staff. …
See the picture above. Back in the days when the late meteorologist Rick Tasetano worked at KTOK Radio News in Oklahoma City, on windy days he would warn ladies that it was a “full skirt alert” day. Now he probably couldn’t say that. Nonetheless, Thursday and Friday will be very windy days in Oklahoma …
Utilities in Southeast Kansas and Southwest Missouri have announced they plan to add solar power to their sources of electrical generation. Liberty Utilities in Missouri announced its solar operation near Prosperity inn Jasper County will be online in late January reported the Joplin Globe. The newspaper stated Heartland Rural Electric Cooperative plans two solar …
The Double E Pipeline proposed to carry natural gas out of the Permian Basin in Southeast New Mexico and to the Waha hub in far West Texas has been approved by federal regulators. Summit Midstream Partners, LP, a Houston-based majority owner of the line said it has received the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Notice …
Tyson Foods facilities in northwest Arkansas will soon be the source of wastewater under a deal the giant firm has reached with NW Natural and BioCarbN to produce renewable natural gas. The two are the developer and operator of sustainable infrastructure projects to convert methane from the Tyson facilities into RNG. According to a report …
** Any attempt by U.S. shale and other oil producers to boost output this year will backfire and lead to lower prices, according to the energy minister of the United Arab Emirates reported Bloomberg. ** Almost one in three workers in the oil and gas industry faced pay cuts in 2020, a worldwide survey showed on Tuesday, …
A federal agency says a 2018 natural gas explosion that leveled a northwest Dallas House and killed a 12-year old girl was the result of a damaged pipeline nearly 20 years earlier. The National Transportation Safety Board also put some of the blame on Atmos Energy and its procedures and decisions in providing natural …
It didn’t take long to count Tuesday’s vote by residents of Shawnee, Oklahoma as they approved the renewal of a 25-year franchise agreement with Oklahoma Natural Gas. Only 186 people bothered to vote and 156 or 83.78% supported the renewal while 30 voters or 16.13% were against it. Typically, the utility renewal contracts that …
The $4.5 billion acquisition of Parsley Energy by Pioneer Natural Resources was completed this week resulting in a much larger operator in the Permian Basin of West Texas. Pioneer based in Dallas announced Tuesday the acquisition was finalized after the approval by stockholders of both companies. At a special meeting of Pioneer stockholders, more …
