Hawaii-based North Star Scientific Corporation, an electronic defense manufacturing firm announced it will expand operations to Oklahoma City. The initial facility will start operations in January with only five employees but the company said it will eventually increase to 40 workers once the plant is fully operational. “NSS has chosen the state of Oklahoma …
Even as the Oklahoma Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a move by regulators to continue enforcing oil and gas regulations on what is considered to still be Indian land in the state, one tribe is telling oil and gas operators they have to start paying taxes to the tribe. The Oklahoman reported …
She’s baaaack. Gina McCarthy, the former EPA Administrator under the Obama administration who brought methane regulations for the oil and gas industry and introduced the Waters of the US rule is being picked to be President-elect Biden’s ‘climate czar.’ As such, McCarthy will coordinate domestic climate response across federal agencies. After leaving the EPA …
Oklahoma government leaders are learning the cold hard truth of what the COVID-19 pandemic has done to the state’s oil and gas industry as they reported a 4.5% drop in general revenue fund collections from a year ago for the month of November. Here’s how the sobering news hit them. November gross production tax …
You might know him as the gay Democratic Presidential candidate who wants to take guns from Americans, but get ready to know much more about Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. President-elect Biden has picked him to be his Secretary of Transportation in a Biden administration. The 38-year old Buttigieg will be …
Kansas City-based pipeline operator Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP is looking for more investors as it announced an offering of $750 million in senior unsecured notes for sale. Tallgrass and its subsidiary, Tallgrass Energy Finance Corporation made the offering of 6.000% notes due 2030 at an offering price equal to 100% of par. The offering …
** The U.S. Energy Department on Tuesday finalized two rules easing energy standards on consumer fixtures and appliances, including one on shower heads after President Donald Trump complained some showers don’t adequately rinse his hair. ** The Star Tribune reported that 22 pipeline protesters were arrested for trespassing this week at a Line 3 construction site in Minnesota. ** The …
The American Petroleum Institute’s Environmental Partnership announced the launching of a performance program focused on reduction of flaring in upstream operations. The API said the flare management program is an expansion on the Partnership’s core mission which recently added midstream operations. It also represents more than 70% of total onshore U.S. oil and natural …
Get ready. Driverless Walmart trucks are coming soon. The Arkansas-based company said it plans to use fully autonomous box trucks to make deliveries starting in 2021, at least in Arkansas. Walmart’s worked with Gatik on a delivery pilot over the past year and a half according to The Verge. Click here for story …
ONEOK on Tuesday announced changes in its board of directors as one member retired and another returned. Gerald B. Smith, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Smith, Graham & Company Investment Advisors, a global investment management firm with offices in Houston, Texas, and New York City was elected to serve again on the board on Tuesday. …