Figures from the federal government show ethanol production dropped about 4,000 barrels a day this week from last week’s record high. The Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.036 million barrels a day which translated into 43.51 million gallons daily. Stocks stood at 19.1 million barrels which is a drop of 0.1% from a week …
Even as he has been nominated by Donald Trump to become the next director of the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency, Attorney General Scott Pruitt is being praised for the work he did in getting an historic water agreement signed and passed by congress. While environmentalists are attacking Pruitt and saying his appointment will be like putting …
As we head into the Christmas weekend, drivers are finding Oklahoma gasoline prices are still the lowest in the country. The state’s $2.02 average is tied with Arkansas for having the cheapest gasoline, according to this week’s release from AAA Oklahoma. “Our Oklahoma average today of $2.02 per gallon for self-serve regular is 17 cents …
The same week that Oklahoma regulators announced new earthquake rules stemming from growing fracking operations in the state’s two big oil plays, the STACK and the SCOOP, central Oklahoma experienced a 3.2 magnitude quake Thursday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the earthquake at 8:21 a.m. with an epicenter about 4 miles east-northeast of …
In fighting a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and attorneys general from other states, the EPA this week took time to poke Pruitt’s nomination to be the new EPA director and also blast the other states for requesting a delay in their suit. The states asked the federal courts in Washington, D.C. …
OG&E paid more than $7.5 million in energy-saving incentives so far during 2016, according to a company press release issued Wednesday. That figure reflects 750 projects among large commercial and industrial facilities, schools and government buildings and small businesses. The combined energy savings was more than 80 million kWh. Cash-strapped secondary schools in Oklahoma have received …
To read what former Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush says of Scott Pruitt picked to head the EPA in a Donald Trump administration gives a reader no doubt about what he thinks Pruitt. “I cannot think of a person more suited to lead the Environmental Protection Agency than Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt,” said Bush writing …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says it is time for change at the Environmental Protection Agency and the call for change is not an attack on the environment but a conscious decision to move away from the unlawful means used by the Obama administration to implement policies rejected by Congress and the American people. Writing …
Oklahoma City-based SandRidge Energy has been hit with a $1.4 million fine by the Securities and Exchange Commission for retaliating against a whistleblower and forcing hundreds of laid-off workers to sign confidentiality agreements. The SEC announced the action this week, explaining that SandRidge violated SEC laws beginning in the summer of 2011 when it forced …
The significance of this week’s new earthquake rules announced by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission is not lost on Chad Warmington, head of the Oklahoma Oil and Gas Association. For the first time, state regulators are linking earthquakes to fracking, not wastewater injection wells. Consider it a preventive step by the Commission as it attempts to …