One of the largest coal-mining companies in the U.S., Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. of Tulsa announced its total 2019 net income grew by nearly 9%. For the 2019 Year, net income attributable to ARLP increased 8.9% to $399.4 million, or $3.07 per basic and diluted limited partner unit, compared to $366.6 million, or $2.74 …
Victim’s family sues over deadly Houston blast
A lawsuit has already been filed over Friday’s explosion that killed two workers at a plant in a Houston, Texas suburb. The family of one of the victims, Frank Flores, contends the Watson Grinding and Manufacturing operation knew the plant was dangerous and didn’t warn workers. Flores and another man, Gerardo Castorena were killed in …
Appeals court rules against fuel exemptions to Oklahoma refinery
A federal court ruling that stated the EPA exceeded its authority in exempting three oil refineries from the Renewable Fuel Standard involves a southern Oklahoma refinery and the company that owns the Holly Refinery in Tulsa. The ruling, according to some observers, could force the Trump administration to reconsider its expanded use of the exemptions. …
Lawsuit challenges FERC’s approval of Permian pipeline
Landowners in the area popularly known as “Hills Country” in South have filed a federal suit against the government over a proposed major natural gas pipeline that will serve the Permian Basin oil field in Texas. The suit accuses the developers of skirting environmental law. In a lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court …
Arkansas regulators to decide who’ll pay for year-old stump fire
The $4 million price tag on an underground trash fire that burned for nearly a year in northwest Arkansas remains the focus of state hearings over who will pay for it. Bella Vista Property Owners Association challenged the state’s original decision to force it to pay but the State’s Pollution Control and Ecology Commission wants …
Triumph Energy scores big with 4 sister wells in STACK
Tulsa’s Triumph Energy Partners, LLC claims it is focused on acquisition and development of resources in the STACK play and that focus paid off in the past year when four sister wells ended up with combined production of more than 3,000 barrels of oil a day. The four Copeland wells, located at 36 15N 8W …
Oil patch jobs take a more than 12% plunge in Oklahoma
While new jobless figures for Oklahoma show the December 2019 jobless rate stayed at 3.4% from November, the numbers in the oil and gas industry were showing dismal signs of the energy slowdown. The state’s jobless rate compared to 3.5% for the U.S. and showed 62,990 out of Oklahoma’s workforce of 1,846,283 were out of …
Energy news in brief
** Baker Hughes announced that the Baker Hughes Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $.18 per share of Class A common stock payable on February 14, 2020 to holders of record on February 3, 2020. ** North Dakota regulators signal they will not impose conditions beyond those required by the federal government on a plan to double the capacity of the Dakota …
Rig count slips nationally—holds steady in Oklahoma
The latest oil and gas rig figures from Baker Hughes show the U.S. count dropped slightly in the past week while the number of rigs in Oklahoma remained steady. The national count dropped by two to 794. A breakdown showed the number of oil rigs rose by three to 676 while the number of gas …
Charges dismissed against Dakota Access pipeline protester
A Dakota Access pipeline protester hit with a charge three years after the 2016 demonstrations in North Dakota has been freed of the charges. A judge and prosecutors agreed the charges against Lawrence Malcolm Jr. had been filed past a two-year statute of limitations. Prosecutors had accused the Sisseton, South Dakota man of being part …