The continued impact of Hurricane Francine on Gulf oil output sent crude oil prices climbing on Monday. Reports indicated at least 12% of crude production and 16% of natural gas output in the Gulf of Mexico was still offline because of the storm that hit the southern states last Wednesday. West Texas Intermediate crude futures …
Damaged highway bridges had the attention of Oklahoma Transportation Commissioners at their recent meeting. They were updated by Transportation Department Executive Director Tim Gatz on a recent bridge hit to the Randall Ave. bridge over I-40 in Elk City. An over-height vehicle carrying an excavator hit the bridge on August 17 resulting in several damaged …
A plan in Congress to prevent the federal government from taking control of private property to develop a national electric transmission corridor has the support of four Republicans in the Kansas congressional delegation. U.S. Sens. Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall and U.S. Reps. Tracey Mann and Ron Estes voiced their support of a …
ONEOK signs off on the sale of $1.25 billion in notes and plans to use the proceeds to pay for its recent acquisitions. The Tulsa-based company announced Monday that on September 10, 2024, ONEOK, Inc., ONEOK Partners, L.P. , ONEOK Partners Intermediate Limited Partnership and Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. entered into an underwriting …
The Arkansas-based J-B Hunt trucking firm has become the first big transportation company to take part in tests involving a new renewable natural gas engine produced by Clean Energy Fuels Corp of California. Clean Energy announced the launching of a program to allow heavy-duty fleets to operate a truck equipped with the new Cummins …
The effort of three Republican state Representatives to have the Oklahoma Supreme Court disqualify Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett from cases involving ONG, OG&E and PSO echoed a similar move weeks ago by another Commissioner. Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony called on Commissioner Hiett to either resign or disqualify himself from some of the cases involved, but …
Embattled Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett, the regulator accused of public drunkenness and attempting to grope a man at a public bar, was hit with an attempt by three legislators before the Supreme Court to stop him from participating in cases involving some major utilities. State Reps. Tom Gann of Inola, Kevin West …
** Arkansas has no wind farms, but at least three are in the construction or planning stages. They include two in the Delta — Crossover Wind near Wynne in Cross County and Long Grain Wind near Marion in Crittenden County — and one in the Ozarks, the Nimbus project near Green Forest… ** Energy companies …
Because of a misplaced decimal by a federal government agency, a firm’s 5,000-well oil and gas drilling project in Wyoming has been put on hold by a federal judge. The Bureau of Land Management’s mistake led to a miscalculation of the project’s groundwater impacts, leading to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan 17-page decision filed …
A report in The Drive says some Tesla Cybertruck owners are only getting about 6,000 miles on their tires. EVs are known for causing excessive wear on rubber tires but the new EV Cybertruck apparently is even more stressful on the tires. Click here for The Drive
