Riders of Oklahoma’s Heartland Flyer could eventually hook up to a high-speed Texas Bullet Train according to an announced partnership between the bullet train’s developers and the Washington D.C. based Amtrak rail line. Amtrak hasn’t operated service between Dallas and Houston since 1995, but once it is restored, riders of the Heartland Flyer will be …
Growing commitments have led to an expansion of Cardinal Midstream III LLC’s Iron Horse pipeline system in western Oklahoma. The Dallas-based company said it is expanding the 100-mile system to 150 miles following a pledge from Camino Natural Resource LLC in Oklahoma City. Camino pledged more than 100,000 acres of its production to the Iron …
Phillips 66 Partners has enough commitments to move ahead with construction of its Gray Oak Pipeline to carry crude directly out of West Texas to coastal refineries. It could be seen as another move that might affect the status of Oklahoma’s Cushing hub as more and more companies are building pipelines to carry out directly …
Two major energy companies have joined forces to resume service on another pipeline to carry product directly out of the Permian basin to the coastal refineries. Enterprise Products Partners L.P. of Houston and Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. of Dallas formed a 50/50 venture to resume service of the Old Oceannatural gas pipeline that has …
An environmental study claims the damage from an oil spill at Michigan’s Straits of Mackinac could result in a $6 billion impact on the state’s economy. The study was carried out by FLOW, a science, law and policy center in Traverse City, Michigan and focused on the Line 5 spill that happened in April when …
ConocoPhillips, the company with a large operation in Bartlesville has announced a quarterly dividend of 28.5 cents a share. The company said it will be payable June 1 to stockholders of record at the close of business May 14, 2018. Now headquartered in Houston, ConocoPhillips not only has a refinery operation in Ponca City but …
The state holds a public hearing Tuesday, May 8 as part of its multi-million dollar settlement with Volkswagen following the car makers admitted emissions scandal. As OK Energy Today reported last month, in order for Oklahoma to get the $21 million share of the total U.S. settlement made by VW, it must created a Beneficiary …
An Austin, Texas political consultant who allegedly hired private investigators to put a GPS tracking device on the pickup truck of anti-wind legislator Rep. Mark McBride of Moore could be subpoenaed this week by an Oklahoma multi-county grand jury. The subpoena of George C. Shipley could come after the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation found …
Phillips 66 indicated that it could be weeks before work resumes on cleanup of a former DX-Sunray refinery near Comanche in southwest Oklahoma because of the presence of dangerous and possibly toxic fumes coming from the site. Over the past few weeks, there have been instances of neighbors turning ill and requiring medical treatment due …
Drilling activity is on the increase in the U.S. as rig counts in Oklahoma went up by 2 to hit 135 and the national count grew by 11 to 1,032. Reports from Baker Hughes Co. and the Independent Oil and Gas Association in Kansas showed increases in oil and gas drilling. The national count included …
