The Oklahoma legislature sent a ROFR or Right of First Refusal bill to Governor Kevin Stitt in the past week…but not a ROFR bill dealing with utilities and their large transmission line projects. Instead, HB3159, authored by Oklahoma City Rep. Eric Roberts, focuses on giving landowners the right of first refusal in sales of land …
The state of New Mexico came down hard this week on oil and gas company Ameredev II,LLC, fining the firm $24.5 million over alleged violations of state air regulations—namely unlicensed flaring. “Let this serve as a wake-up call to the oil and gas industry – the Environment Department is using remote sensing technology, …
This map, courtesy of the Oklahoma Mesonet State Climatologist Gary McManus shows what Oklahoma might experience again after weekend tornadoes left four dead, dozens more injured and a handful of cities in shambles. McManus noted in his Monday report that severe weather could strike again on Tuesday as well. “—just not quite as hazardous …
While the Biden administration is out with new emission regulations that it believes will bring about a reduction in coal usage in the U.S., Tulsa’s Alliance Resource Partners announced increased coal sales in the most recent quarter. And company leadership believes electricity demand will only result in increased sales of coal. Coal sales were …
** Interstate 40 was reopened in both directions Sunday as fire crews continued watch over a controlled burn of remaining fuel from a freight train derailment near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, a local fire chief said. Earlier evacuation orders have now been lifted. ** Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., which reported earnings Friday, are both predicting …
This massive piece of equipment rolled off its trailers on Saturday near Temple, Texas, crushing a car and killing two people while critically injuring a third person in the car. It took rescuers nearly four hours to remove the driver from the crushed car. The incident happened as the oversized piece of eqipment …
The nation’s number of active oil and gas rigs dropped by six in the past week, reported Baker Hughes Co. The count dropped to 613 while Oklahoma held stead with 44 active rigs, still down from the 59 reported a year earlier. Nationally, the numbers included a decline of 5 oil rigs to 506 …
The Emergency Price Stabilization Act is in effect in the 12 Oklahoma counties hard hit by Saturday night’s tornadoes. The counties are Carter, Cotton, Garfield, Hughes, Kay, Lincoln, Love, Murray, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, Payne and Pontotoc. The law, also referred to as the price gouging statute, prohibits an increase of more than 10 percent for the …
A retired B-1B Lancer is undergoing extensive maintenance at Tinker Air Force Base after being pulled out of the Air Force’s Boneyard to replace one badly damaged in a 2022 engine explosion at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. The plane was made air worthy earlier this year and flown to Tinker in February …
The count remains unconfirmed but possibly up to three dozen or more tornadoes hit Oklahoma on Saturday, leaving four persons, one a baby, dead in the town of Holdenville and heavy destruction in the southern towns of Sulfur, Ardmore and Marietta. Two of the deaths happened in Holdenville, located about 75 miles southeast of …