The federal government recently signed off on the expansion of the Gross Reservoir in Boulder County, Colorado but the fight against the hydropower plan isn’t finished. As Colorado Public Radio reported, environmentalists plan to continue their opposition to the plan that got its start 17 years ago. Click here to view the story.
A nearly 10-year old fight over water use from the central Kansas 22,000 acre Quivera National Wildlife Refuge might be about to end. An agreement was signed last week among area farmers, the Refuge, the U.S. Government and nearby towns. Click here to read story in the Hutchinson News.
Conservationists in southern Colorado are excited with the prospect of obtaining funding from the Great American Outdoors Act passed last week by Congress to use to protect more ranchland in the Navajo River Watershed. They point to the conservation of the Banded Peak ranch east of Pagosa Springs explaining a 30-year and $37 million …
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board has released the results of its investigation into the deaths last fall of a worker and his wife who died after being overcome by hydrogen sulfide at a water flood station in Odessa,Texas. The worker was employed by Aghorn Operating, Inc. and had responded the night of October …
The board of directors of Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MMP) has declared a quarterly cash distribution of $1.0275 per unit for the period April 1 through June 30, 2020. The second-quarter 2020 distribution is 1% higher than the second-quarter 2019 distribution of $1.0125 per unit and consistent with the first-quarter 2020 amount. The …
Laredo Petroleum indicated in a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission it averaged less than $25 a barrel of crude oil in the three month period of April, May and June of this year. The Tulsa company filed preliminary results for its commodity derivatives, weighted-average common shares outstanding and average sales prices for the three-month …
WPX Energy in Tulsa plans to discuss its second-quarter 2020 financial and operations results during a webcast on Thursday, July 30, 2020, beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern. Chief Executive Officer Rick Muncrief, Chief Operating Officer Clay Gaspar and Chief Financial Officer Kevin Vann will discuss the company’s performance. The company reported an unaudited first …
Declines in methane emissions, reportable spills and workplace injuries. They were highlighted by Williams Cos. of Tulsa as the firm announced the release of its 2019 Sustainability Report, providing a comprehensive review of the company’s performance on environmental, social and governance programs and initiatives. “At Williams we believe that running our business in a …
A long list of completed wells was filed this week with Oklahoma regulators showing new producing wells in Ellis, Grady, Canadian, Kingfisher, McIntosh, and Woods counties. Citizen Energy III LLC filed reports on 3 Canadian County wells Two sister wells were drilled at a pad located at 12 12N 9W or 8 miles west …
Can the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers be blocked from permitting oil and gas projects like the Dakota Access Pipeline? Or those in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and other oil and gas producing states? It might happen because of the effort by controversial New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She has introduced an amendment for the …