When you enter the Permian Basin of southeastern New Mexico, you see mile after mile of pump jacks pulling oil out of the ground. Hundreds of them. There are so many that they have resulted in record oil production for the state of New Mexico in 2018. Southeastern New Mexico is riding a monster …
Once again, gross production taxes on oil and gas production in Oklahoma helped create a major increase in Oklahoma’s General Revenue Fund collections for the month of February. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services reported the total general revenue fund collections topped $385 million, coming in at $64 million or nearly 20 percent over …
The state of Missouri has joined with business leaders in launching a study of creating an ultra-high-speed Hyperloop system connecting Kansas City and St. Louis. Costly? You bet. Perhaps up to $27 million a mile to build a tubular track in which passengers would ride in a train-like pod at speeds up to 640 mph. …
Mustang’s CKEnergy has won a battle with ONEOK to stop the large corporation from supplying power to a pump station near Binger. ONEOK’s building a pipeline in the territory already served by CKEnergy, a firm created in 2016 following the consolidation of Caddo Electric Cooperative and Kiwash Electric Cooperative. CKEnergy filed a request with the …
Rep. John Pfeiffer’s bill to protect mineral rights owners from cities and municipalities won approval this week in the State House. House Bill 2150 was approved on a 64 to 32 vote and sent to the Senate. Pfeiffer, a Republican from Orlando had earlier seen his bill win overwhelming approval in the House Energy and …
One State Senator thinks the State Wildlife Conservation Commission is on a “land grab” and his bill to stop it awaits a vote in the full Senate. Sen. Casey Murdock, R-Felt is the principal author of the measure to prevent the Commission from buying more land than it sells each year. “The Wildlife Commission is …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe joined Democrats and other Republicans this week in launching a move to reauthorize the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act. He and others called it one of the most cost-effective federal clean air programs and their legislation would reauthorize the program through fiscal year 2024 at its current funding levels. It would …
Among some of the appointments announced this week by Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat were those to energy related commissions. He made appointments to a Joint Legislative Task Force on the Grand River Dam Authority, the Radiation Management Advisory Council, the Solid Waste Management Advisory Council and the Storage Tank Advisory Council. Named …
Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is resurfacing publicly for perhaps the first time since he resigned last year following an ethics scandal. He will be one of the speakers at the Dallas County Republican Party’s annual Reagan Day Dinner on March 21 in Dallas. Invitations were sent out this week following the announcement by the …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission meets Wednesday to consider reported efforts of one commissioner to become the new chairman. Commissioner Todd Hiett is said to be intent on taking over the leadership position held by Commissioner Dana Murphy. A vote on a new chairman of the Commission is on the Wednesday agenda. Hiett is the current …