Oil futures got a lift Tuesday as Hurricane Sally neared landfall, forcing the shutdown of more than a quarter of offshore Gulf of Mexico crude production and a number of refineries. Nearly 27% of Gulf oil production and about 28% of natural-gas production has been shut in as of Tuesday, according to the Bureau of …
A Tulsa federal judge has ruled against a request by the Bristow First Assembly of God in its efforts to extend the number of defendants and deadlines in its lawsuit over a Superfund site that forced the church to move nearly six years ago. U.S. District Judge Terence C. Kern ruled against the church …
Google announced an ambitious plan this week to run its operations in northeast Oklahoma and across the world totally on carbon-free energy 2030. The company said it already has purchased enough carbon offsets to cancel all the planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions released by the company since its founding in 1998. Google’s Oklahoma data center …
** During President Donald Trump’s visit to a wildfire-plagued California, he rejected that climate change is at the root of the West Coast’s ongoing state of disaster and instead blamed poor forest management, saying “I don’t think science knows” what is actually happening in the state. ** The U.S. clean energy sector added 13,556 jobs in …
While the EPA administrator defends this week’s decision to deny small refinery exemptions of biofuels mandates, Wyoming U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi says it will hurt energy workers. “I’m disappointed in the EPA’s denial of these important small refinery waivers,” Enzi said in a press release from his office reported the Oil City News in Casper. “The …
Developers of a planned crude oil pipeline to connect the Permian Basin of West Texas and southeast New Mexico have decided to cancel the project, blaming a struggling market during the COVID-19 pandemic. Enterprise Products Partners announced on Sept. 9 that it was cancelling its Midland to Echo 4 crude oil pipeline project that …
Bloomberg News reports Dell Technologies is preparing to eliminate jobs as more businesses continue to struggle during the COVID-19 pandemic. How it might affect the company’s operations in Oklahoma City is unclear at this time. Dell is headquartered in the Austin, Texas suburb of Round Rock. The company’s chief operating officer, Jeff Clarke, informed …
Federal regulators on Monday handed a victory to corn farmers and the renewable fuels industry by refusing to allow a group of petroleum refiners in 14 states to forego requirements to blend ethanol into the gasoline they make. It’s unclear how the action might affect the Supreme Court challenge of CVR Energy and its …
HollyFrontier Corporation is looking for more investors as the Dallas-based company announced the offering of $750 million in senior notes. The operator of a refinery in Tulsa as well as others across the U.S. said $350 million will involve 2.625% senior notes due 2023. Another $400 million in 4.500% senior notes due 2030 will …
Improved transparency at the EPA—Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford calls it “great news.” He commented after Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced this week the final rule to establish consistent requirements and procedures for the issuance of guidance documents. “This change might seem minor to some, but if you have ever had to …