Those layoffs carried out this week by Williams Cos. in Tulsa aren’t a surprise to Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett. But he says what is a surprise is how the Williams Companies might leave his city once its merger is completed with Dallas-based Energy Trans…
Tulsa-based Williams Cos. Inc. and Williams Partners LP began layoffs in Tulsa and Oklahoma City on Tuesday as previously announced in mid-March. At that time, Williams CEO Alan Armstrong said that layoffs would affect 10 percent of the company’s 6,700…
The contraction of the Oklahoma Energy Index continues, and it is Oklahoma?s rural communities that have faced the greatest economic hardship.
The Oklahoma Energy Index contracted for the 13th consecutive month in January, leaving activity in t…
Oklahoma gasoline prices have dipped slightly in the past week, reaching a statewide average of $1.86 a gallon, about 1.2 cents below the price of late last week, according to AAA Oklahoma.
The new average is 52 cents higher than the price on Feb. 13,…
Low petroleum prices continue to pummel producers all across Oklahoma hard. Among the hardest hit are the small and marginal producers who don?t have very deep pockets when it comes to weathering the low-price storm. Many of those producers are…
Presidential hopeful Donald Trump is making waves as he talks oil and proposes a freeze on buying oil from Saudi Arabia unless the Saudis send in troops in the fight against ISIS, according to the New York Times.
His call came in a recent interview wi…
Environmental science and policy reporter Justin Gillis of the New York Times will be a keynote speaker on climate change next week at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond.
His talk will be “Hot Times! Into a Warming World” and will be at 2 p….
A bipartisan group of 19 U.S. Senators recently sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency director Gina McCarthy urging her to continue the trend of increasing support for the nation’s renewable fuel sector.
“We remain concerned that it c…
The energy downturn is affecting the state of Wyoming in a way it didn’t see coming…..an outward migration of people. In short, more people are leaving the state than are coming to make a home there and State leaders put the blame on the loss o…
Hours after the U.S. Geological Survey released a controversial report putting Oklahoma as the riskiest state for a damaging earthquake in 2016, a 4.2 magnitude quake rattled the area around the town of Crescent.
It occurred around 11:30 p.m. on Monda…
