The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a diminished use of public transportation across the U.S. and it has some officials worried about increased dangerous new levels of air pollution because more cars are on the streets and highways. More cars on the roads in congested urban centers like New York City—the virus epicenter in …
An energy policy advocate in New Mexico urges continued development of the state’s oil and gas resources and is critical of Democrat candidates who want to abandon fossil fuels. It’s what Victoria Gonzales, New Mexico’s State Director of the Consumer Energy Alliance wrote this week in an opinion piece for the Las Cruces Sun …
While Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is in something of a fight over biofuel waivers for small refineries like the one in Wynnewood, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has approved legislation that reduces the Iowa tax on gas with an ethanol blend of 15 percent or higher. It applies the same six-cent per gallon break to …
While Black Lives Matter protesters want to tear down a Teddy Roosevelt statue in New York City, the North Dakota Supreme Court has sided with state environmental regulators in one of two legal challenges to a proposed oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The opinion issued this week upholds a lower court ruling that affirmed …
** For two months, the Malta-flagged oil tanker Alkimos has been quietly floating off the Gulf Coast of Texas, undisturbed by the high-stakes legal fight playing out in a federal courtroom as a result of American sanctions on Venezuela. ** Houston oil company Sanchez Energy has exited from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a new CEO and as …
While the Oklahoma State Fair has been canceled because of concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson will go on but with restrictions. Among the public health changes will be a requirement to wear face masks while indoors. Masks will be recommended but not required at all other times according …
SCRIBESign In Oil drilling produces up to 10 gallons of water for every barrel of oil. While the Environmental Protection Agency has balked at allowing oil companies to treat drilling wastewater and discharge it into streams, oil rich states, including Texas, are moving forward with plans to permit it. Environmental officials in Texas and other …
More bankruptcies and layoffs are hitting Oklahoma although it is not directly in the state’s energy field. Still, it has an impact. NPC, owner of Pizza Huts in Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma filed for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy. The filing, according to Bill Hancock, the Business Services and Rapid Response Coordinator at the Oklahoma …
New Mexico State Land officials have already used satellite imagery to track pollution in the Permian Basin and now want to employ it to crack down on trespassing and mineral theft from the State Trust land. The office recently began a pilot program with commercial aerospace company Planet, to design and use Earth-imaging satellites …
Oklahoma’s STACK play yields a three-well project with production of more than 2,200 barrels of oil a day for Oklahoma City’s Devon Energy. Devon filed completion reports this week on the three McCarthy 10_3-1n-9w wells drilled on a single pad at 10 15N 9W, a site 13 miles southwest of the city of Kingfisher. …