Even with some areas of northwest Oklahoma seeing a total snowfall of 27 inches in December, the U.S. Drought Monitor shows Oklahoma still has more than 25% in a moderate drought. Gary McManus, State Climatologist for the Oklahoma Mesonet and the Oklahoma Climatological Survey said the hard hit drought areas didn’t get some of …
** Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez has suspended the 8% tax on oil imports and is working on other legislative steps so the country can rebuild its oil and natural gas production. He’s hoping to make Vaca Muerta, one of the world’s largest shale plays a global exporter. ** A Massachusetts city becomes the first in the …
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board will hold a public hearing this week on proposed phosphorus criterion covering rivers and creeks of northeast Oklahoma, a move seen as protecting the rivers from growing phosphorus pollution caused by chicken waste. The planned changes will apply to the Scenic River reaches of the Illinois River, Flint Creek and …
Not far from the oil-rich and productive Permian Basin region of Midland, Texas is a 2,000 acre site covered with solar panels. The Long Draw Solar Project, located in Borden County houses more than 800,000 solar panels and became operational in mid-December. The Kerrville Public Utility Board held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the project …
A startup company that will manufacture off-road electric vehicles plans to locate its headquarters in Liberty Hill, Texas, a small city located west of Georgetown and north of Austin. Volcon manufactures two-wheel and four-wheel electric off-road vehicles such as motorcycles and utility terrain vehicles, reported the Austin American-Statesman. Volcon’s new headquarters will be located …
With the swearing in of newly-elected freshman Rep. Stephanie Bice, Oklahoma’s U.S. House delegation returned to an all-Republican group. Bice, the former Oklahoma City-area state senator who upset incumbent Democrat congresswoman Kendra Horn took her oath of office on Sunday as the 117th Congress got underway in Washington, D.C. Bice joined Republican Reps. Tom …
** Iraq’s military on Saturday said explosives experts with its naval forces successfully dismantled a mine that was discovered stuck to an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf two days earlier. No group has claimed responsibility for placing the mine. ** Gazpromneft, the oil subsidiary of Russia’s natural gas giant Gazprom, opened a venue for cryptocurrency mining on …
Last week’s swarm of earthquakes in West Texas has scientists wondering whether oilfield drilling activity is the cause, much as the quake activity in Oklahoma drew notoriety in recent years until regulators took steps to reduce their numbers. It was New Year’s Eve when a 4.0 magnitude earthquake near Stanton, Texas, a small tow …
The Air Force is expected to announce early this year its pick for the new home of the U.S. Space Command headquarters. Six locations made the first cut. Oklahoma City at one time considered application to locate the headquarters close to Tinker Air Force Base but apparently no formal entry was ever made. The …
Recent rulings by three Nebraska judges might result in the developer of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline possibly being forced to reapply for state government approval. Reports by Bold Nebraska, an environmental group created several years ago in opposition to the Keystone XL line going through the state indicated three judges have raised the …
