Analyst Day Set by Williams in Tulsa

Tulsa’s Williams and Williams Partners have announced they plan to hold their annual Analyst Day on May 17. During the day, company leaders will give in-depth presentations covering all of the company’s and partnership’s energy infrastructure businesses. The Analyst Day meeting will begin at 7:15 a.m. Central Time and run approximately four hours. For those …

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Tallgrass Energy to Release 1Q Report May 3

Pipeline operator Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP plans to announce its first quarter 2018 financial results on May 3. The company will release the report on that Thursday and hold a conference call later in the day. In announcing its fourth quarter 2017 earnings in February, the Leawood, Kansas based company called it “another outstanding year …

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Oklahoma Pipeline Trespassing Lawsuit to Be Heard by Denver Federal Appeals Court

The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver is set to hear arguments next month in a lawsuit filed against Enable Midstream Partners, L.P. in which the company’s accused of trespassing on Caddo County land. The 2015 lawsuit was filed by Marcia Davilla and others in a case involving 137 acres that had originally …

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FCC Commissioner Announces Resignation

  FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn announced this week she intends to resign after being named to the Commission in 2009 by President Barack Obama.  She previously was Acting Chairwoman in 2013. During her tenure, Clyburn helped author the net neutrality regulations that were put in place in 2015.  She also opposed their repeal last year. …

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Corporation Commission Promotes Safe Digging Month

April is National Safe Digging Month, and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission is reminding Oklahomans that any outdoor digging project this spring should start with a phone call. Commission Chairman Dana Murphy says dialing  8-1-1 can save you from a terrible accident. “There’s more than just earth beneath your feet,” said Murphy. “Oklahoma has thousands of miles of buried pipeline and utility cable. The only …

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Icahn Announces His Nominations to Control Board at SandRidge

As he attempts to take over the board of directors at Oklahoma City-based SandRidge Energy, activist Carl Icahn has unveiled his proposed list of five directors. He revealed their names this week in his proxy fight with the company. They include: Jonathan Frates, Nicholas Graziano, John J. “Jack” Lipinski, Bob G. Alexander and Randolph C. …

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Rep. Bridenstine Awaits Possible Senate Vote This Week on his NASA Nomination

Oklahoma Congressman Jim Bridenstine might learn this week if he is going to become the new administrator of NASA. The U.S. is reported to be poised to vote on his second nomination by President Donald Trump.  The first failed to make it to the Senate before the end of the congressional session in 2017, prompting …

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Tulsa Coal Company to Release Earnings Report

Tulsa’s big coal companies, Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. and Alliance Holdings GP, L.P. plan to report their first quarter 2018 financial results on April 30. The company will release the report prior to the opening of the market on that Monday. Management will then hold a conference call at 9 a.m. Central Time to discuss …

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Another Texas Pipeline Affects Cushing Hub Operations

Yet another crude oil pipeline is carrying crude directly to South Texas ports and refineries rather than to the Cushing hub in northern Oklahoma. Days after we reported how Cushing was losing some of its influence in the crude oil market and how more and more pipelines were carrying oil directly to market, Enterprise Products …

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North Slope in Alaska Promising for ConocoPhillips

With major operations in Bartlesville, ConocoPhillips is in the process of expanding into Alaska and reported this week the conclusion of its 2018 winter exploration and appraisal program there. And it appears the results are promising for the Houston-based company. ConocoPhillips originally intended to drill five wells on the Western North Slope comprising two appraisal …

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