The Oklahoma Transportation Commission awarded nearly $130 million in highway construction projects during its meeting this week in Oklahoma City. Contracts were awarded for major projects on US-62 in Muskogee County, US-259 in McCurtain County and US-69 in Atoka and Bryan counties. Secretary of Transportation and ODOT Executive Director Tim Gatz unveiled a spring …
Supreme Court revives Trump EPA clean water rule
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, in a 5-4 split, revived a Trump-era rule intended to fast-track big energy projects by limiting the power of states to curtail the projects under the Clean Water Act. The court ruling came in a challenge filed by Louisiana and seven other Republican-led states, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, West …
Large solar farm proposed in northeast Kansas
NextEra Energy’s plans for a 3,000-acre solar panel farm in northeast Kansas are gaining traction. Click here for Kansas Public Radio
US and World energy headlines
** Power generated by wind turbines in the United States hit a milestone last week, becoming the second-highest source of electricity in the country for a 24-hour period, according to the Energy Information Administration. ** New Fortress Energy Inc. is new to the LNG-export game, but its billionaire chief has big plans. Within a couple of years, …
European countries meet with US shale gas producers
Representatives from 9 European countries met this week in Houston with a dozen U.S. shale gas executives to discuss expanding U.S. fuel supplies to Europe. Reuters reported the officials toured the Golden Pass LNG export project in Sabine Pass, Texas, and later met in Houston with shale gas producers. Click here for Reuters
New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon to be protected in BLM agreement
The federal government has agreed to pause all oil and gas activity around the Chaco Canyon area of northwest New Mexico. The Bureau of Land Management said this week it would reconsider a Trump administration decision that opened up fracking on 45,000 acres around the historic Indian site reported The Santa Fe New Mexican. …
Lankford urges Democrats to look in the mirror to see who’s to blame for high gas prices
While Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee were slamming oil and gas and blaming the industry for high gasoline prices, Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford stood up for the industry on Wednesday, saying the Democrats have it all wrong on who’s to blame. He and other Senate Republicans said the President’s progressive …
Crude prices dropped their lowest in weeks
On the same day Big Oil was slammed by members of a U.S. House Committee exploring high gasoline prices, oil futures took a sharp drop on Wednesday. The drop occurred as nations announced plans to release oil from their reserves to counter an increase in tight supplies. Both Brent and West Texas Intermediate benchmarks hit …
Oil companies grilled by Democrats during House committee hearing
It was clear from the start of the Democrat-led House committee hearing into high gasoline prices Wednesday that they blamed ” big oil” for what Americans are paying at the pumps, but representatives from six oil firms, including Oklahoma’s Devon Energy, defended their operations. While the Committee called the hearing an investigation into high …
Investors to learn if Helmerich and Payne continued to trim losses
The second quarter 2022 earnings release by Tulsa’s Helmerich & Payne will be held later this month. Investors will be anxious to learn whether the company was able to continue reducing its losses. The company said it has a conference call scheduled for Thursday, April 28, one that will begin at 10 a.m. central …