A most contentious hearing is expected Tuesday when New Mexico Democratic Congresswoman Deb Haaland goes before a Senate Committee to hear her nomination to be Interior Secretary and Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford will be listening and watching. Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford and others on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will take …
The big plunge in crude oil prices on Friday means investors and traders start out Monday with levels under the $60 mark in the U.S. and less than $63 in Europe. West Texas Intermediate crude oil for March delivery fell $1.28 to $59.24 a barrel Friday. Brent crude oil for April delivery fell $1.02 …
Oil refinery operators in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana are still reviewing the damage caused by the historic freeze and some of the largest refineries in Texas could be down for weeks of repairs. “It’s going to be a difficult restart for refiners,” said Andy Lipow, president of energy researcher Lipow Oil Associates in Houston …
Northern Oklahoma was the site of a 4.2 magnitude earthquake Friday morning, one that was strong enough to be felt 150 miles away in Oklahoma City and more than 70 miles away in Wichita, Kansas. No one was reported injured but the quake was a repeat of a similar strong quake earlier in …
Just how cold was it in Oklahoma over the past week? Cold enough that alligators in Southeast Oklahoma were found frozen in ponds with their snouts sticking above the ice in order to survive. Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s David Arbour spotted some of them in the more than 5,800-acre wetland project called the …
It hasn’t happened in Oklahoma, but at least two lawsuits were filed against utilities over the historic power failure in Texas. Both involved some of the same providers who operate in Oklahoma. One of the suits is against CenterPoint Energy, the Houston-based provider that is also a main supplier of natural gas in Oklahoma. …
** Protesters of the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline under construction near Duluth, Minnesota threw a package at a work site then fled the area, prompting a sheriff’s bomb squad to be called in by workers. ** The U.S. Senate energy committee will hold a hearing on electric grid reliability sparked by this week’s mass outages across …
Activist investor Carl Icahn, the largest shareholder in Oklahoma City’s SandRidge Energy as well as the CVR Refinery in Wynnewood now has his eyes set on troubled Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp. Yes, this is the same company that became the focus of a major bribery scandal last year when three top executives were fired in …
Reports indicate that the state of Texas, was literally minutes away from possible power outages lasting months, not hours as the historic freeze gripped the state and interfered in power production. As the status of rolling blackouts and power production improved late in the week, Bill Magness, President and CEO of the Electric Reliability Council …
As temperatures rose into the mid 20s on Thursday in Oklahoma, gas supplies eased too along with a dramatic and historic plunge in natural gas prices. Reports indicate spot prices on gas dropped 99%. By Thursday, the gas supply for next-day delivery at the ONEOK Gas Transportation hub in the state traded at $4 …