Oil and gas exploration companies offer no letup in the interest in Oklahoma’s STACK as indicated by the latest reports on file with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. As shown by OK Energy Today’s Permits to Drill reports, Kingfisher county will be the site of another 20 drilling sites. A dozen of the permits went to …
Activist investor Carl Icahn waited only a few days to respond to the latest round of the proxy fight with SandRidge Energy Inc. in Oklahoma City and blasted the company for its operations. In a filing made with the Securities Exchange Commission, Icahn responded point by point to the claims of SandRidge Energy which wants …
A Texas Court of Appeals has upheld a $9.3 million verdict against the Choctaw Nation over a 2013 charter bus crash that killed two passengers on the George Bush Turnpike in Dallas. The ruling was made by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the 5th District in Texas. The panel dismissed the …
Tulsa’s Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. has closed a $100 million repurchase deal reached with its wholly-owned subsidiary Alliance Holdings GP, L.P. The agreement was a move to simplify operations and allows each unit holder in Alliance Holdings to have the same economic share of Alliance Resource Partners. The company said that as a result of …
Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners has won federal government approval to begin service of remaining parts of its more than 700 mile long Rover Pipeline. The approval extends to segments that will allow 100 percent of the mainline capacity of 3.25 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas from northeastern U.S. Prior to the approval …
Mustang Rep. Leslie Osborn says it was her work with the State Labor Department nearly 8 years ago that led to her candidacy for Labor Commissioner. The Republican lawmaker is still a State Representative until November but wants to win the GOP nomination in the June primary. Interviewed this week on radio KOKC’s Tod Tucker …
Despite the efforts of hundreds of Oklahoma utility and power company workers in the past several months following hurricane Maria last fall, Puerto Rico’s public electrical authority remains in trouble. Especially if another hurricane hits the island nation of 3.3 million people. Crews from PSO in Oklahoma, OGE were sent early to provide aid. Then …
Leading public education advocate, Dr. Denise Roddy, is endorsing Cathy Costello in the Republican Primary for Labor Commissioner. “One of Cathy Costello’s greatest assets is being a former classroom teacher,” Dr. Denise Roddy says. “Cathy truly values public education and understands the importance of closing the skills gap by promoting STEM programs for both college-bound …
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin on Wednesday reduced the state’s burn ban to two counties but that might even be changed following Wednesday night and Thursday morning thunderstorms. The storms brought more rain to the northwest but also produced a tornado near Vici and 80-mile an hour winds that ripped the roof from a mobile home …
A coalition of ethanol manufacturers and groups has filed suit in the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver challenging certain EPA waivers of the Renewable Fuels Standard to several refineries including one in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Farm Report says the suit was filed against the EPA by the Renewable Fuels Association, the Advanced …