As the Gulf Coast braced for the arrival of Hurricane Laura and crude supplies dropped for a fifth straight week, U.S. oil futures settled Wednesday on a mixed note but still held their ground at the highest finish since early March. But global benchmark prices slipped. West Texas Intermediate crude for October delivery inched up …
COVID-19 and its impact on the travel and lodging industry are forcing the Sheraton hotel in downtown Oklahoma City to lay off 71 workers in late October. However, the hotel will remain open for business. In a letter to the Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development, Laura Warner, SVP of Human Resources at Crescent Hotels …
Oil and gas people? Or anti-fracking groups? Who will win the support of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission as it adopts sweeping new regulations in the coming weeks? This week, the Commission heard arguments for and against the issue of how friendly local governments can be about oil and gas well locations. …
Like Oklahoma’s decades long effort to rid the state of abandoned oil and gas wells, North Dakota is doing the same with former coal mines. But it is a long and slow process in the state where there is an estimated 1,500 to 1,800 known abandoned coal mines. As The Dickinson Press reported, only …
Four years after the violent protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, some of the protesters are still in prison. And they’re speaking out as the federal courts have ruled that the pipeline built by Energy Transfer LP should be temporarily shut down. The politically progressive monthly magazine, “In These Times” …
The company planning to build the Grain Belt Express transmission line to carry wind-powered electricity from southwestern Kansas to Illinois now says it will distribute more of the electricity in Kansas and Missouri. Invenergy Transmission says the reason is because it ran into regulatory delays in Illinois. So it intends to increase the …
Federal and state law officers held a 2019 exercise in Iowa to practice their responses to a fictional wind farm sabotage threat according to an online news publication. The Intercept reported details of the exercise held jointly by the FBI’s field office in Omaha, Nebraska and the Iowa Division of Intelligence and Fusion Center. …
Oklahoma will continue its control of natural gas production for the remainder of 2020 with the same rate it adopted in March of this year. But one regulator wonders if it is the right move as a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast. The Corporation Commission, in a 15-minute meeting on Wednesday voted 2-1 to …
Leaders of the Oklahoma and Tourism Department stood by their decision to increase parking fees at nearly half of Oklahoma’s state parks this summer. Speaking at an interim study hearing requested by Poteau Republican Rep. Lundy Kiger and held by the House Appropriations and Budget Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Regulatory Services, Jerry Winchester, Executive …
Those biofuel exemptions sought by the Wynnewood refinery in Oklahoma, ones that led to a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling are now political ammunition for Joe Biden in his campaign to unseat President Donald Trump. The Wynnewood refinery lost its efforts to keep the small refinery exemption of ethanol blending requirements from …
