Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is being accused by the Poultry Federation of laying an egg over his proposed judgment in the state’s 20-year old lawsuit over poultry pollution of the Illinois River in eastern Oklahoma. It’s Drummond’s proposed final judgment in the case of State of Oklahoma v. Tyson Foods Inc. in which …
Williams out with Sustainability Report
Williams is out with its latest Sustainability Report which offers a review of the firm’s environmental and safety performance and management and details of the company’s efforts on social and governance topics for the 2024 reporting year. The Tulsa-based natural gas firm said its 2024 carbon emissions rate was flat, it became the …
With hotter weather comes growing dryness in Oklahoma
Summer will be “roaring back” this week, proclaimed Oklahoma Mesonet Climatologist Gary McManus. In a recent Mesonet posting, he observed how the state went from no abnormally dry areas to about 4%. ” Enough so that the amount of Abnormally Dry (D0) conditions on the U.S. Drought Monitor map for Oklahoma QUADRUPLED!!! Okay, from 1% to …
Energy briefs
** The Trump administration moves to defund the Chemical Safety Board, which environmental and community advocates worry will leave a regulatory gap in the oversight of hundreds of petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast. ** Ford’s vehicle sales rose 14% to more than 612,000 in the last quarter, according to earnings that bested analysts’ expectations. …
Hydrogen project declared dead at Ardmore
Three months after Australian-based Woodside Energy told Ardmore city leaders their plan for a hydrogen energy plant was on hold, and strongly hinted it could be cancelled, the firm revealed the project indeed is dead. It was in April when the company suggested the project might not go ahead. An official with the …
Crude oil fell $2 a barrel on Friday and OK energy stocks finished with losses
Crude oil prices plunged about $2 a barrel on Friday and the tumble sent shock waves through Oklahoma energy stocks as most finished with losses for the day. Analysts blamed a possible production increase by OPEC+ as well as a weaker-than-exepcted jobs report in the U.S. Global benchmark Brent crudefutures dropped $2.03 or …
Crude oil dropped Thursday as US August 1 tariff deadline approached
The day before President Trump’s August 1 tariff deadline, crude oil prices fell by 1%. It seems the uncertainty of some countries who have not negotiated a trade deal with the U.S. affected investors. The White House intended Thursday to reach out to those countries. So far, two-thirds of the nation’s top 18 …
ConocoPhillips layoffs following Marathon Oil merger—are they coming to Oklahoma?
Three months after ConocoPhillips confirmed it planned employee layoffs following the company’s $23 billion buyout of rival Marathon Oil, there are fears the cuts will perhaps soon trickle down to the firm’s former headquarters in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Rumors, and that’s all they are for now, suggested some of the 1,300 ConocoPhillips employees in …
Regulators urged to maintain current proration formula for certain gas wells
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners will hold an August 20 hearing into their annual decision regarding the statewide proration formula for unallocated gas wells for the period of October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. The agency’s Oil & Gas Conservation Division has recommended the formula should be set at the greater of 75% of thewellhead calculated …
Kansas Attorney General wants Justice Department investigation of Chinese energy group
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach says it’s time the Justice Department began an investigation of a Chinese energy organization he contends is carrying out “environmental lawfare,” or the filing of environmental lawsuits and court actions. He wrote US Attorney General Pam Bondi this week asking her to begin a probe of The Energy …
