A new trial date has been set in Tulsa U.S. District Court for the 35-year old Chinese national arrested in January and charged with stealing trade secrets from Phillips 66 in Bartlesville. U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell granted requests by attorneys for Hongjin Tan to continue the case from an original trial date of …
A new report prepared for the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee lays out which military installations in the U.S. are most vulnerable to climate change. None are in Oklahoma but there are some in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. California and Florida each have eight threatened installations according to a report from the Government Accountability …
A lawsuit’s been filed by three environmental groups to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to issue an assessment on the possible re-introduction of federal protections for lesser prairie chickens in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and three other states. The lawsuit was filed in the District of Columbia against the administration of President …
San Antonio based Pioneer Energy Services is being warned it might be removed from listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The warning came this week and gave Pioneer six months to regain compliance with a minimum share price requirement. The NYSE requires that the average closing price per share of a listed company’s stock …
The final report into the January 2018 well blowout and fire that killed five workers on a gas rig near Quinton in Southeast Oklahoma was released by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board on Wednesday. The Board laid blame on what it called “significant lapses in good safety practices” at the site, stating there was also …
Layoffs hit Oklahoma City’s SandRidge Energy this week. The company did not reveal the number of employees who were laid off, but in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission explained the layoffs totaled more than 10% of its workforce of 310 employees. President and Chief Executive Officer Paul McKinney, on the job since …
Six Flags Entertainment, the company that operates Frontier City amusement park in Oklahoma City has made a major move toward solar power. The company announced that its World’s Ultimate Thrill Park located in Jackson, New Jersey is nearly fully-powered by solar energy. It is the state’s largest net metered solar project and one of the …
Even as Houston’s Cheniere Energy is spending $1 billion to build a new gasline across Oklahoma, the company is expanding its board of directors. Michele A. Evans, Executive Vice President of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics joined the board effective June 7 as an independent director. Evans has more than 32 years of experience in the defense …
First Devon Energy in Oklahoma City announced a move to cut methane gas emissions in an effort to be environmentally friendly. Now Williams Cos. of Tulsa has done the same thing. The company announced it has joined the Our Nation’s Energy Future Coalition, a natural gas industry-led group dedicating to voluntarily achieving meaningful reductions in methane …
Amtrak’s gearing up to celebrate its 20th anniversary of the Heartland Flyer in Oklahoma. The celebration will be observed on Friday, June 14. It was in 1999 when passenger rail returned to Oklahoma as the Amtrak Heartland Flyer hit the rails between Oklahoma and Texas. The daily service by Amtrak has carried more than …