Based on AAA reports, Oklahoma has some of the lowest gasoline prices in the country with a state average of $2.67 per gallon. A week ago, the average was 4 cents higher while a month earlier, the Oklahoma average was $2.76 per gallon. It compares to a nationwide average of $3.13 per gallon. …
It’s what some in the energy industry really want to know….whether President Donald Trump’s theme of “drill baby drill” is working. If you check with economist Steve Moore and his “Committee to Unleash Prosperity,” it is working. Consider his lead sentence in his Tuesday update. “Drill baby drill is working.” He went on …
Expand Energy Corporation announced its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mohit Singh has left the Oklahoma City firm. He was terminated for an unexplained reason. A filling with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed he “will depart the Company to pursue other interests due to a termination without cause, effective August …
A Cushing, Oklahoma worker was found dead over the weekend inside a fermenting tank at a Nebraska ethanol plant. He was identified as Randall McElroy, 31 whose body was found Saturday at the Husker Ag Ethanol Production facility near Plainview, Nebraska. KTIV News reported Plainview Fire and Rescue and Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies responded …
Interesting development occurred recently in southern Kansas where a truck towing a wind turbine blade could not make a tight turn. It was in the southern townof Sedan and the driver, according to KSNW TV News, tried several times to make the turn but couldn’t. Sedan Police, in a social media posting explained what …
(Kathryn Scott, Special to The Colorado Sun) Just like Oklahoma regulators, those in Colorado are dealing with the boom in the construction of data centers, a boom that will create a demand for more electricity to power those operations. One of the latest proposals to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission is Xcel Energy’s idea …
A new law in Arkansas opens the door for higher electric rates as the state’s two largest utilities propose “strategic investments” including new gas-fired power plants. Entergy Arkansas, the largest electric utility in Arkansas, has filed application to build a 754-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant, which it hopes to finance with a rate increase …
** One of the largest solar-and-storage power generating facilities in the U.S. has come online in Southern California, immediately providing 7% of all of L.A.’s power needs, the Los Angeles Times reported. With the plant’s opening, 64% of the city’s power now comes from renewable sources. ** A U.S. district judge on Friday denied the latest …
Oklahoma might be home to still another data center. The Yukon City Council voted recently to sell 184.5 acres of city-owned land for $15.8 million to BLE Holdings, LLC of Atlanta, Georgia which intends to make a $1 billion investment for a 0.5-gigawatt data center. The site is near Highway 66 and Frisco …
The New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission has given unanimous and favorable approval of Empire Petroleum’s request for rights to the Residual Oil Zone in the Eunic Monument South Unit Unitized INterval in Lea County, New Mexico. After four years of expenditures, Empire, the Tulsa company, received the Commission’s unanimous decision at a public hearing …
