Halliburton Company announced that its board of directors has declared a 2024 third quarter dividend of seventeen cents ($0.17) a share on the Company’s common stock payable on September 25, 2024, to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 4, 2024. Headquartered in Houston, Halliburton has major offices in Duncan in …
Kansas and Nebraska are in another water fight. This time, its about what’s in the Platte River—the highly invasion Asian carp species called Silver Carp. Nebraska has a plan known as the Platte-Republican diversion which would mean the carp would be allowed to enter the Republican river which flows into Kansas. Kansas Gov. Laura …
Falling crude oil prices on Friday took Oklahoma energy stocks down with them. Crude dropped nearly 2% as Brent crude dropped again below $80 a barrel. Investors didn’t like the news about demand growth from top oil importer China. As trading starts this week, the question is whether there might be a rebound in …
Weekend storms that packed 70 mph winds caused weekend power outages for OG&E operations in eastern Oklahoma, leaving more than 9,100 customers without power as of Saturday morning, down from a peak of more than 20,000.’ By Saturday night, nearly 87% of those who lost power had it restored, according to OGE. The …
** A century-old rail lift bridge that crosses the U.S.-Canada border near the cities of International Falls, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario, has collapsed, and it’s unclear when the area will reopen to water traffic along the Rainy River. No trains were involved, and no one was injured in Wednesday’s collapse, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. ** …
Proposed federal transmission lines that would event stretch across Oklahoma and at the same time involve the controversial Grain Belt wind transmission line in Kansas aren’t being accepted with open arms in southwest Kansas. Residents around Larned, including land-owners, raised their voices in objection at a recent public meeting. Some felt they were left …
Crude oil prices rebounded from some of their losses this week with a more than $1 a barrel gain and at the same time, Oklahoma energy stocks did the same. Crude prices rose after the release of U.S. economic data that might have eased concerns of a recession. West Texas Intermediate crude in the U.S. …
The approval by county commissioners of new rules restricting solar farms around the city of Wichita, Kansas just killed a planned Invenergy solar farm. Sedgwick County Commissioners voted this week in support of new rules to include prohibiting solar farms in “urban growth areas,” a move that killed a 103 MW project first proposed in 2019. …
Prospect Energy LLC just got the boot from the state of Colorado. Facing $1.7 million in fines for dozens of violations, the oil and gas company lost its right to operate in the state and was ordered by the Energy and Carbon Management Commission to clean up its facilities. The fines stemmed from dozens of …
US Sen. Markwayne Mullin and Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall apparently thought their joint appearances earlier this year were so successful, they’re going to do it again. Next week, the two will continue their State and Federal Partnership Series: ‘Serving Oklahoma 101’ with joint events and gatherings in Atoka and Durant. These panel-style …