A day after it was announced Oklahoma once again had the nation’s second lowest gasoline average of $2.05 a gallon, prices in the Oklahoma City metro plunged to $1.74 a gallon. The $2.05 average statewide was announced Monday by AAA Oklahoma but Gas Buddy reported gasoline prices on Tuesday had dropped 31 cents below the …
A deal worth $863 million dollars has been announced between Tulsa-based WPX Energy and San Antonio, Texas based Howard Energy Partners to expand their development in the Permian’s Delaware Basin. The joint venture is designed to support WPX’s drilling operations in the Stateline area, representing 50,000 acres or 37 percent of WPX’s nearly 135,000 net …
As he retires following 48 years with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation,Gary Ridley is drawing compliments as long as the highways he engineered all those years. One of those with high compliments is Neal McCaleb, president of Transportation Revenues Used Districtly for Transportation or TRUST. “Gary Ridley is the consummate professional and is regarded as …
A longtime veteran of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation has retired effective immediately. Gary Ridley, a 48 year ODOT employee, served as secretary of transportation for two governors during his tenure. “Gary Ridley’s name is synonymous with roads and bridges, in Oklahoma and across the country,” said Mary Fallin, Oklahoma’s Governor. “He has testified to …
A correction to our June 9 story headlined “Oil Companies Join In Legal Challenge to Oklahoma Cigarette “Fee”. We wrongly identified Hutchinson Oil Company LLC as being headquartered in Clinton. The firm is located in Elk City and runs Hutch’s Convenience stores in Oklahoma and Kansas.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court recently gave a partial victory to Cushing-based Hough Oilfield Service in its attempts to recover nearly $176,000 from a former employee and her husband. Hough Oilfield, a firm started in 1980 by David Hough and later renamed HOTCO, filed suit in 2012 against Linda Newton and Randall Newton. Linda Newton had …
Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Steve Russell was blunt over the weekend when asked what he thought of the Trump administration’s plan to privatize the nation’s air traffic control system. “I think it’s the dumbest thing we’ve ever thought about doing,” said Russell during the Oklahoma Associated Press Convention. “I realize I’ll be swimming upstream on this …
The Trump administration has taken the latest step in the court fight over the efforts of environmentalists who stop the Keystone XL pipeline which would eventually move oil to Cushing, Oklahoma and southward to the Gulf oil refineries. It was Friday when government lawyers argued federal courts don’t have the legal standing to review …
The U.S. Senate’s given unanimous approval to a measure called the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver Act, a bill co-sponsored by Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe. He’s a senior member of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee and praised the US Fish and Wildlife Partners for fish and Wildlife program. “This program, in tandem …
A week after President Trump announced his decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord and attempt to renegotiate a better deal for the U.S. he has the support of Oklahoma Congressman Steve Russell. “All of us should be good stewards, but the Paris Climate Accord amounted to a giant transfer of America’s wealth …