Officials at ONEOK in Tulsa say they’re reviewing orders from a federal agency that issued a $732,000 fine over a 2008 fire at the company’s operations in Bushton, Kansas. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued three Final Orders on Wednesday with required corrective actions and civil penalties totaling $732,100. …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that three Oklahoma rural electric cooperatives will receive more than $40 million in federal loans for construction, improvement and repair projects. A $15.7 million federal loan was awarded to the Central Rural Electric Cooperative to build or improve 34 miles of transmission and distribution line. Located in Stillwater, …
He helped start Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corporation 45 years ago and now Larry Nichols will be honored by the University of Oklahoma’s College of Law. He will be given the Eugene Kuntz Award at the annual Eugene Kuntz Conference on Natural Resources Law and Policy on Nov. 4. Nichols, a lawyer by training will …
Ground was recently broken in Ponca City for a $110 million cogeneration facility by Continental Carbon. Dennis J. Hetu, President and CEO from Houston helped with the ceremonies. Continental Carbon plans to construct the new facility behind its existing carbon black manufacturing plant south of Ponca City. “This will allow the company to be free …
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board has received a nearly $11 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to fund clean-water projects in the state. The grant goes to the state’s Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund. it provides low-interest, flexible loans to communities to help them improve water quality and infrastructure. The $10.79 million will …
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds itself hauled into court again, but this time by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The group filed suit in Washington, D.C., accusing the EPA of illegally withholding the specific effects of its pending plan to hike permissible radiation exposure in drinking water. The EPA has refused to disclose …
The Dakota Access Pipeline protest supported by some Oklahoma Native American tribes saw North Dakota law enforcement officials shooting at an unmanned aircraft over the weekend. The Morton County Sheriff’s office said a helicopter that was monitoring the latest protest against the nearly $4 billion pipeline was approached by a drone in what the office …
Oklahoma now has the lowest pump price average in the nation, according to the Fuel Gauge Report from AAA Oklahoma. The State’s new average is $2.01 a gallon, a drop of 3 and a half cents in the past week. Bartlesville and Lawton have the lowest averages of $1.89 each. For Lawton, that’s a 9 …
Nearly 7 and a half months after Oklahoma energy leader Aubrey McClendon was killed in a traffic crash, the claims against his estate have gone beyond $1 billion. Most of the claims have been made by Wilmington Trust and Chesapeake Energy Corp., the firm he helped found before he was forced out a few years …
Oklahoma oilman Harold Hamm still thinks Donald Trump would be far better for the U.S. energy industry than Hillary Clinton. Maybe even resulting in U.S. energy independence in the next 6 years. “Hillary Clinton wants to follow on with President Obama and basically discount what’s been given with this American renaissance,” he told CNBC …