A damning report on the 2013 deadly explosion at a Williams Company Olefins plant in Louisiana has been issued by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a report that said a poor “safety culture” led to the blast that killed two workers in Geismar, Louisiana. “The report concludes that process safety management program deficiencies at the Williams …
Those opponents of the smart meters installed by PSO in Tulsa are planning another rally against the efforts of the utility. Members of Tulsa 9.12 will hold a “Keep Our Analog Meter” rally Friday afternoon in front of the PSO headquarters at 212 E. 6th street in Tulsa. In announcing the rally time and date, …
Sometimes you have to have a sense of humor when it comes to the growth of earthquakes in Oklahoma and southern Kansas, those reportedly caused by the thousands of wastewater injection wells in the two states. Take for instance how the Hutchinson News in Kansas reports earthquakes—-a shaking webpage. Easy for them to do, since …
Chesapeake Energy is planning to hold its 2016 Analyst Day on Thursday, the first in two years. The event will bwe held at the company’s corporate headquarters and a live audio webcast will start at 9 a.m. CDT. It can be accessed by visiting the “Investors” section of the Chesapeake website at www.chk.com. Chesapeake will …
A judge has signed off on allowing Tulsa-based Samson Resources to sell some of its assets to raise about $660 million as it works its way through Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. Judge Christopher Sontchi with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware made the approval this week, according to the Tulsa World. …
Twenty-one years after a Union Pacific train derailment spilled 3,300 gallons of carbon tetrachloride in Kingfisher County, several landowners have sued the railroad company claiming the site still contains an underground plume of the chemical. The lawsuit, filed in Kingfisher County was transferred to Oklahoma City federal court, according to a report in the Journal …
Divers have recovered the body of a third victim in Monday night’s explosion and fire at chemicals maker BASF’s biggest production site in Germany. Another is still missing, according to BASF. The blast happened on a supply line connecting a harbor and a tank depot on the Ludwigshafen site which is about 80 kilometers or …
A man was killed this week in Nebraska when he drove through an anhydrous ammonia gas leak. The pipeline is owned by Tulsa-based Magellan Midstream Partners and the company is investigating. The Monday night incident happened on an 8-inch pipeline in a rural area north of the town of Tekamah which is about 40 miles …
A 2014 chemical spill involving a radioactive isotope at the University of Tulsa’s north campus has resulted in the filing of a new lawsuit by more than two dozen plaintiffs, according to a report by the Tulsa World. The suit alleges the University of Tulsa, Chevron and British oil and gas subsidiary, Tracerco, were “grossly …
Those nearly 100 Hillary Clinton emails mentioning Oklahoma U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe and released by WikiLeaks caught the Senator off guard. He admitted he was totally surprised this week when interviewed by OK Energy Today and asked about it. “Oh really, I didn’t know that,” he said with a surprised look on his face. ” …