( Photographer: Eddie Seal/Bloomberg) According to the Energy Workforce & Technology Council in Houston, the July jobs report showed the staying power of the oil and gas services sector. The report indicated the oil and gas services sector supported 647,559 jobs and had a loss of 201 jobs from June. The numbers are based on …
As Vice President Kamala Harris picked her vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Oklahoma U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin said voters shouldn’t forget how the Biden-Harris administration led to the loss of U.S. energy independence. In his latest “Mullin it over” column to constituents, the GOP U.S. Senator declared that Americans are …
Williams came out this week with second quarter earnings of 43 cents a share which was more than the analyst estimate of 38 cents. It also had reported revenue of $2.34 billion, nearly 4% below the analyst estimate of $2.43 billion. Adjusted net income was $521 million and 43 cents a share and it …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony is making another call for Commission chairman Todd Hiett to resign over the drunken-male groping incident reported in the past few weeks. He is also calling for replacement of Hiett as chairman by Corporation Commission vice-chair Kim David. Hiett refused last week to resign, contending his resignation would harm …
Two environmental minded groups contend that Oklahoma would have been able to clean up hundreds more of orphan well sites had it not been for some major state oil and gas companies backing out of the voluntary funding program run by the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board. Capital and Main along with ProPublica reported that …
** Sens. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) unveiled a bill recently to delay new vessel speed limits on the Atlantic coast. Whale advocates say the legislation would doom the North Atlantic right whale to extinction. The bill, the “Protecting Whales, Human Safety, and the Economy Act of 2024,” S. 4948, was introduced Friday. ** The …
Get ready for some hot 100s this week in Oklahoma and if you’re in the Texas Panhandle, even hotter! How much hotter? How about 110 degrees—actual temperature. Check out the forecast from the Amarillo National Weather Service. Southern Oklahoma? How about 107 and 108 degrees. And eastern Oklahoma?
With U.S. markets suffering some of their worst losses in two years during a selloff of global stock markets, crude oil prices fell. So did Oklahoma energy stocks as many suffered losses of 5% and 6% while one firm dropped 10% during the day’s trading. The “R” word, recession, might have played a continuing …
The city of Stillwater could be in line for $30 million in water improvements if Congress passes a Water Resources Development bill and if President Biden signs it into law. City leaders already have some projects that could be targeted with the possible funding. The U.S. House recently approved the Act which includes millions …
Another Oklahoma city just felt the second impact of a deadly tornado. The city of Barnsdall, hit hard by a May 6 EF-4 tornado that destroyed the NuCera Solutions plant, got the recent news that the Chase Corporation, which owns and operated the plant, revealed it would not rebuild the plant where high-grade chemicals and …
