A West Virginia energy manufacturer is opening new operations in Claremore and as a result will add 40 to 50 jobs over the next three years. BelGAS Flame Management, a division of Marsh Bellotram Co. will make flame arrestors, tank wiring accessories, burners and specialty fabrication services for the oil and gas industry. “We knew …
The number of orphaned and abandoned well sites restored by the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board reached 16,000 in 2017. The OERB, in its 2017 annual report released this month indicated the organization restored 760 sites last year and for the first time, cleaned up a site in Harmon County. The number is an increase from the …
NBA fans will see a lot of ExxonMobil in the coming season as the giant energy company has just signed new multi-year marketing partnerships with three NBA teams. Sorry, the Oklahoma City Thunder is not one of them. The partnerships are with the Boston Celtics, Charlotte Hornets and Houston Rockets. The team deals extend ExxonMobil’s …
Energy Transfer Partners is trying to line up new and continuing business for its new nearly 1,900-mile Bakken Pipeline system. Its subsidiaries, including the Dakota Access LLC and Energy Transfer Crude Oil Company have launched a Binding Expansion Open Season to solicit shipper commitments. The line will carry crude from North Dakota’s Bakken/Three Forks oil …
With the signing by Gov. Mary Fallin into law in recent days of a 2018 budget bill that carries 2 percent budget cuts, Oklahoma’s Department of Environmental Quality is like other state agencies in dealing with the loss of some funding. How will DEQ handle it? “DEQ’s state-appropriated dollars principally fund personnel, specifically in the …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe has urged U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to move as quickly as possible in handing out federal money for transportation projects. In a recent hearing held by the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, he spoke with Chao about the need for infrastructure movements and projects across the U.S. …
The last of the OGE linemen sent to restore electrical power in Puerto Rico were scheduled to arrive back in Oklahoma on Thursday. For the past 40 days, they were in the northern part of the island that lost all electricity when hurricane Maria hit in September. The linemen were slated to arrive at Oklahoma …
The latest in the state’s investigation of who put a tracking device on the pickup truck of Moore Rep. Mark McBride and the Texas political consultant subpoenaed in the case. Now the Wind Coalition’s president Jeff Clark denies hiring George Shipley or Shipley’s company to do opposition research on McBride because he opposes the wind …
We learned this week that U.S. oil production hit a record high in November 2017, thanks to the shale boom in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, North Dakota and other oil-producing states. U.S. crude production was 10.057 million barrels a day for the month, the highest amount on record on monthly data collected since 1920 according to …
Ever wonder just how profitable some of those big truck stop companies are? Travelcenters of America, with operations throughout Oklahoma is out with its quarterly and year-end financial results. Its total revenues for 2017 came to more than $6 billion while the fourth quarter revenues totaled $1.5 billion, up from the $1.4 billion reported in …