While it appeals a $218 million judgment in a lawsuit brought by Kansas farmers, Syngenta is urging a Kansas federal judge to certify the final judgment, a move that would allow the Swiss company to speed up its appeal of the case. It was in June when a federal jury awarded the $218 million to …
In a deal worth $2.4 billion, Phillips 66 Partners LP is buying Phillips 66’s 25 percent interest in two North Dakota pipelines. The purchase includes interest in the Dakota Access LLC and Energy transfer Crude Oil Co. LLC and 100% interest in Merey Sweeny LP. It includes the Bakken Pipeline, a system more than 1,900 …
The recently-announced poll by the Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance claiming 67% of Oklahoma voters supported an increase in tax on oil and gas production is challenged by the group that did the poll. WPA Intelligence responded by stating that another poll found that “voters have a strongly favorable image of the oil and natural gas …
While state legislators grapple with a plan to fix Oklahoma’s state government budget hole of $215 million, some want to increase the gross production tax on oil and gas. And that’s an issue that prompts Chad Warmington, President of the Oklahoma Oil and Gas Association to declare it’s nothing but political talking points on the …
The wrongful death lawsuit against XTO and Exxon Mobil in Oklahoma City federal court was settled on Thursday. But terms of the agreement in the suit brought by the widow of an oilfield worker who died while tank gauging near Ardmore in 2014 were not disclosed. “The parties have reached a confidential settlement without XTO …
Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm isn’t afraid to say it…he thinks the government’s optimistic predictions of more than 1 million new barrels of oil a day in the U.S. production is “distorting” global crude prices. It’s what he told Bloomberg News, saying the prediction this week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration is “just flat …
Kansans who rely on self-generated electricity from wind and solar energy aren’t happy over a Kansas Corporation Commission ruling this week. The KCC issued an order detailing how utility companies can charge customers for what is known in the industry as “distributed generation,” meaning those customers who self-produce energy in small amounts according to a …
A Texas appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling that said National Oilwell Varco and an independent trucking company were not responsible for a fatal car crash that occurred when the vehicle slid on oil mud covering a highway. Varco had employed Big Red trucking to haul mud from a drill site near Flatonia, …
Energy and some non-profit groups have filed suit in Muskogee federal court against the federal government for failing to remove the American burying beetle from the endangered species list. The lawsuit filed Thursday was in the U.S. Eastern District Court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service against the Department of the Interior, Interior Secretary …
The Denver federal appeals court has decided it will not rule on a legal challenge by energy groups to tougher fracking regulations on federal and Native American land created in the Obama administration. The U.S. 10th Circuit decided there won’t be a ruling because President Trump issued an executive order rescinding the rules adopted in …