Love’s stores to require COVID-19 protective masks

Oklahoma City-based Love’s Travel Stops announced that as of July 29, the company will require its customers to wear face coverings or masks because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision will apply to every Love’s Travel Stop, Love’s Country Store, Love’s Truck Care and Speedco location across the U.S. The company has 540 stores in …

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1,000 new jobs added to Amazon center in OKC

  Amazon’s new Oklahoma City plant is said to be adding another 1,000 workers. It’s what The Oklahoman reported this week. Click here to view the story.  

Drilling activity reported in Oklahoma’s STACK

  Ovintiv Mid-Continent Inc., Paloma Operating Co. Inc. and Fourpoint Energy companies are among those energy firms still drilling for new oil in Oklahoma. They and other firms filed completion reports this week on wells in Canadian, Kingfisher and Ellis counties. Ovintiv Mid-Continent completed the Klade 1407 4h-3x well in Canadian County at 10 14N …

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Energy news in brief

 ** Entergy Arkansas customers are supposed to receive a $15 million refund by the end of July, but the utility is contesting an order by state regulators to make the payment.  **  Six new sinkholes appear along the Mariner East pipeline route in eastern Pennsylvania as opponents press state officials to shut the project down. ** A group of 20 …

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Study undertaken into wind farm impact on pronghorn antelope

  Scientists and researchers have studied the impact of wind farms on birds but now wildlife biologists in Wyoming have undertaken research into the impact on the pronghorn antelope. The state’s Game and Fish Department recently launched the study by putting GPS tracking collars on 36 pronghorn fawns “in an effort to understand the demographic …

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Quarterly dividend declared by ONE Gas in Tulsa

  ONE Gas directors this week declared a quarterly dividend of 54 cents a share of common stock. The Tulsa-based company said the dividend will be payable Sept. 1, 2020 to shareholders of record at the close of business Aug. 14, 2020. ONE Gas announced previously that it expects the quarterly dividend to be 54 …

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Earnings report to be released by man camp provider Civeo

  Man-camp provider Civeo Corporation, a firm with closed operations in Oklahoma plans to announce its second quarter 2020 earnings on Wednesday, July 29. The firm’s leaders will hold a conference call at 10 a.m. Central time and discuss financial and operating results for the quarter. The results will be released before the market opens …

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Coal sales lawsuit filed by tribes and environmentalists in Montana

  Indian tribes, environmentalists and some states are not giving up in their efforts to stop the Trump administration from selling coal from public lands, even though a federal court has allowed it. A coalition of those groups filed suit this week in Montana to stop the government from the coal sales, according to the …

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Briggs and Stratton is latest bankruptcy victim

    Briggs and Stratton engines—they ran everything from lawn mowers to scooters to go-carts and more. Now the manufacturer is the latest American business to file for bankruptcy protection. Founded in 1908 by an inventor and investor, the Milwaukee-based firm filed this week. Briggs filed for Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for …

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Another Bakken oil pipeline had been shut down before Dakota Access

  The Dakota Access pipeline wasn’t the only line to be shut down by the courts in recent weeks. Bloomberg reports the Dakota Access was actually the second line ordered closed by a judge.   On July 2, a lesser-known conduit called Tesoro High Plains was ordered shut for the first time in its 67 …

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