Tulsa’s Williams Cos. might have more environmental challenges to deal with as the pipeline company attempts to supply more natural gas to the northeast U.S. Recent court rulings have given a morale boost to environmentalists who have fought some of the firm’s pipelines as well as those constructed by other energy firms. A recent …
Someone in New Mexico’s state government knows the answer but isn’t saying why Spaceport America CEO Dan Hicks was put on administrative leave three weeks ago. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported an investigation is underway but Hicks knows little about the probe and is under state orders not to discuss it publicly. “I’m …
While the U.S. oil and gas industry staggers from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the people of Venezuela in the country to the south face gasoline shortages as the U.S. tightens economic sanctions against their dictatorship. Reuters reports that more companies are abandoning any business ties to the South American country. Several companies that …
‘That’s what we’re fighting here; big money and bad politics’ – Doug Crow Ghost, from the Standing Rock Sioux – James Breeden for the Telegraph The recent court victory by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota against the Dakota Access pipeline is being hailed as significant by not only the tribe but observers …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners will meet Tuesday to consider either extending their order closing the headquarters building to the public because of the COVID-19 pandemic or to end it. The commission is under growing pressure to open the building, if not to the public in general, at least to those attorneys and representatives of companies …
Six years after the Osage Nation and the federal government went to court over a wind farm development, the case is still being heard in Tulsa federal court where a judge recently issued rulings. The case involves construction of a wind farm by Osage Wind, a company sued for not obtaining mineral permits to …
The rash of oil and gas bankruptcies in North America is set to continue for the remainder of 2020, a report by Haynes and Boone cited by Reuters shows. After the coronavirus pandemic and oil price war set in at the end of the first quarter, the second quarter began with a wave …
A U.S. federal judge has rejected the latest effort by Dakota Access, LLC, to avoid a court-ordered shutdown of its 570,000-barrel-per-day oil pipeline, paving the way for the company to file an appeal with a higher court. The decision marks the latest legal twist since the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia …
The Commissioners of the Land Office of Oklahoma meet tomorrow in a special meeting to consider naming a new CEO who has a reported history of shorting the agency on his own royalty payments. It is the governor’s second troubled appointment of a leader of the agency. As The Oklahoman reported over the weekend, …
ALLETE, Inc., the Minnesota based energy firm with a major wind-farm operation near Ardmore, Oklahoma plans to release its financial results for the second quarter before the open of markets on August 5. Afterward, ALLETE President and CEO Bethany M. Owen will be joined by other executives of the company in presenting an overview …
