The Oklahoma Sierra Club is making a pitch to its members and followers to urge the state legislature to do more for expansion of solar energy in the state and at the same time protect the wind industry. In a message to members over the weekend, Oklahoma Sierra club Chapter President Johnson Grimm-Bridgwater said …
An agreement by Fiat Chrysler and Robert Bosch GmbH over an emissions cheating scandal means Oklahoma will get more than $2.2 million as part of its share of a lawsuit settlement. The two firms will play tens of millions of dollars to Oklahoma and 49 other states. Bosch will pay more than $98 million …
Oil and gas rig counts fell across the U.S. and in Oklahoma in the past week according to the latest figures from Baker Hughes Co. and the Red Top Rig Report. Nationally, the count dropped by four to reach 1,047 while the number of oil-drilling rigs dropped by 4 to 853 and the number of …
Not that Oklahoma oilman Harold Hamm, founder of Continental Resources, is in competition with any company to see who’s the biggest. But Bloomberg reports that Concho Resources Inc., headquartered in Midland, Texas is now bigger than Continental and Hess Corp. The proclamation came after Concho made its richest-ever acquisition. Here’s how Bloomberg reported …
New Mexico’s Gov. Michelle Lujan Grishman wants to restore the ability of the state’s oilfield regulators to directly fine well operators who don’t properly maintain equipment or spill waste. Her bill, authored by Democratic state Sen. Richard Martinez passed out of its first legislative committee this past week even though Republicans fought it. The collection …
Canada is moving more oil by rail than ever before according to the country’s National Energy Board which reported a record high in December. The Board indicated Canada exported 354,000 barrels per day of oil which was 7 percent higher than the November total of 330,400 bpd. It was nearly twice as much as …
After 12 years in prison over the infamous Enron fraud scandal, the company’s former CEO Jeffrey K. Skilling is a free man. He was released Thursday after locating last August at a halfway house at an undisclosed site from a minimum security federal prison camp in Alabama. Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in prison …
Evergy, Inc., the new firm created as a result of the merger of Westar Energy and Great Plains Energy reported full 2018 earnings of $536 million or $2.50 per share an increase over a year earlier. The Kansas City-based company said it compared with earnings of $324 million or $2.27 a share for all of …
An administrative law judge at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission has refused to delay Oklahoma Gas and Electric’s request for a nearly $78 million rate hike. The Sierra Club wanted the judge to require OGE to prove its 2016 decision to install scrubbers at the firm’s Sooner Plant coal-fired units were the right decision. The Club …
The issue of trains blocking street intersections in Oklahoma isn’t new to the state. Check the history books. While the Oklahoma House approved a bill this week creating a $10,000 fine for railways that block intersections for more than 10 minutes, it was actually an issue in the state going back to 1911. The State …
