An annexation fight is underway where a data center is opposed to being annexed by the city of Muskogee. It’s led to a lawsuit filed by Polaris Technologies. The company went to Muskogee County District Court where it is asking a District Judge to issue an injunction against the city’s annexation ordinance approved last …
Production of crude oil and natural gas grew in past year across the US
The latest government report shows Oklahoma’s crude oil production grew by 2.5% in the past year. Production figures were released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Crude Oil (thousand barrels per day) State/area May-25 Apr-25 Percent change May-24 Percent change U.S. 13,488 13,464 0.2 13,201 2.2 Alabama 8 8 -5.5 9 -15.0 Alaska 434 …
Sen. Mullin says Obama’s climate decisions were costly to the U.S.
“What Lee Zeldin just did is took a sledgehammer to the regulatory environment.” Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin made it clear he thinks EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin did the absolute right thing in rescinding Obama-era environmental decisions. Interviewed recently by Harris Faulkner on Fox News’s “The Faulkner Focus,” he called them “the Obama-era endangerment …
Executive retirement at Southwest Power Pool
Southwest Power Pool (SPP)announced the pending retirement of a longtime, highly respected member of its executive team and the promotion of another long-tenured leader who will fill the position. Senior Vice President of Operations Bruce Rew will retire from SPP in December of 2025. C.J. Brown will become vice president of operations beginning …
Mach Natural Resources releasing 2Q report this week
Mach Natural Resources LP plans a release this week of its second quarter earnings report. Details will be made available on Thursday, August 7 after the close of markets. The second quarter 2025 earnings release will be available on the Company’s website at www.ir.machnr.com. A conference call will follow Friday morning at 9 o’clock …
Poultry Federation squawks about Attorney General’s Illinois River pollution plan
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is being accused by the Poultry Federation of laying an egg over his proposed judgment in the state’s 20-year old lawsuit over poultry pollution of the Illinois River in eastern Oklahoma. It’s Drummond’s proposed final judgment in the case of State of Oklahoma v. Tyson Foods Inc. in which …
Williams out with Sustainability Report
Williams is out with its latest Sustainability Report which offers a review of the firm’s environmental and safety performance and management and details of the company’s efforts on social and governance topics for the 2024 reporting year. The Tulsa-based natural gas firm said its 2024 carbon emissions rate was flat, it became the …
With hotter weather comes growing dryness in Oklahoma
Summer will be “roaring back” this week, proclaimed Oklahoma Mesonet Climatologist Gary McManus. In a recent Mesonet posting, he observed how the state went from no abnormally dry areas to about 4%. ” Enough so that the amount of Abnormally Dry (D0) conditions on the U.S. Drought Monitor map for Oklahoma QUADRUPLED!!! Okay, from 1% to …
Energy briefs
** The Trump administration moves to defund the Chemical Safety Board, which environmental and community advocates worry will leave a regulatory gap in the oversight of hundreds of petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast. ** Ford’s vehicle sales rose 14% to more than 612,000 in the last quarter, according to earnings that bested analysts’ expectations. …
Hydrogen project declared dead at Ardmore
Three months after Australian-based Woodside Energy told Ardmore city leaders their plan for a hydrogen energy plant was on hold, and strongly hinted it could be cancelled, the firm revealed the project indeed is dead. It was in April when the company suggested the project might not go ahead. An official with the …