POLITICO reports that senior leaders of the Bureau of Land Management, those moved to Grand Junction, Colorado when the Trump administration relocated headquarters there are returning to Washington, D.C. with the Biden administration in charge of things. An internal agency email obtained by POLITICO indicated that most assistant directors, deputy assistant directors, the director …
Williams recognized for strong ESG performance and transparency
Williams was recognized across several key rankings in 2021– including CDP, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Sustainalytics and MSCI – for the company’s commitment to transparency and governance around climate change. Williams ranked first in its peer group in the DJSI and was the only U.S. energy company to be included in their world …
Clean Energy scorecard shows OKC and Tulsa rank poorly
The 2021 City Clean Energy Scorecard released this week by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy gives low-rankings to Oklahoma City and Tulsa. The list ranks 100 major U.S. cities on their efforts including reducing energy waste in homes and buildings and moving toward a cleaner power grid—and doing so equitably. It identifies the leading cities, …
Friday’s other energy news headlines
** About half of U.S. oil pipeline space is sitting unused, heating up competition for barrels in higher-output areas like the Permian Basin in Texas. Reuters reports that overall U.S. pipeline capacity utilization is at around 50%, compared with a range of 60% to 70% headed into early 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic hit, according to …
Customers give high marks to PSO in J-D Power Survey
Public Service Company of Oklahoma received its best-ever scores on the 2021 J.D. Power Electric Utility Residential Customer Satisfaction SurveySM. Overall, PSO customer satisfaction rose by 10 points in a period when the average score for most utilities dropped by three points. The survey results mark the second consecutive year PSO has topped all previous …
Embezzling sinner awaits sentencing
An accountant who embezzled $830,000 from a Norman oil and gas exploration company reportedly wanted to use some of the money to create a church for the “Perpetual Sinner.” But Ronald David Kirkpatrick II, 51 also used some of the money he stole from West Star Operating Co. to make car purchases and fund …
Texas energy firms indicted over California oil spill
California prosecutors say Houston-based Amplify Energy Corp. and two subsidiaries have been indicted for a crude oil spill and left Southern California waters and beaches polluted in October. The indictments alledge the spill was caused because workers failed to properly act when alarms repeatedly alerted them to a pipeline rupture. Click here for ABC News.
Oklahoma in federal coal fight
Oklahoma is resisting efforts by the Biden administration to surrender its authority over coal mine clean up efforts to the federal government or Indian tribes. This week, the government filed a request with a federal court stating that Oklahoma should turn over cleanup oversight because tribal lands are overseen by the tribes or federal …
Cushing makes slow recovery in crude oil storage
The Cushing hub continues to see a slight weekly gain in the amount of crude oil in storage. With a working storage of about 76 million barrels across at least 15 terminals, Cushing’s latest amount on hand was 32.2 million barrels as of Dec. 10, 2021 reported the U.S. Energy Information Administration, That’s an …
Canoo to ramp up production with Oklahoma and Arkansas plants
Electric vehicle startup Canoo Inc, the Arkansas-based company building a car-manufacturing plant in northeast Oklahoma said this week it was accelerating its production plans in the United States while ending its deal for VDL Nedcar in Netherlands to serve as its contract manufacturer in Europe. Canoo said starting production at its plant near Pryor …
