After an 87% increase in total revenue during the first quarter of 2023, Oklahoma City-based Mammoth Energy Services prepares a release of its second quarter earnings report. But the big question is just how badly low natural gas prices affected the company’s completions activity and whether it continued into the second quarter. The financial …
Governor Kevin Stitt is asking Lt. Governor Matt Pinnell to take the lead in workforce development and has nominated him to be the next Secretary of Workforce Development. Pinnell’s focus will be working with the Department of Education and Department of Commerce to develop a workforce pipeline. If confirmed by the Oklahoma Senate next …
With the help of more than $92 million from the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act, the Army Corps of Engineers in the Tulsa and Little Rock districts has launched efforts to deepen the the shipping channel on the 445-mile McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. Plans call for the channel to be deepened to 12 …
Six states, Louisiana, North Dakota, California,Wyoming, Washington and Kansas were the primary sources of all renewable diesel production in the United States in 2021. Oklahoma joined the production in 2022 when the CVR refinery at Wynnewood began manufacture of biofuels as well. But the U.S.Energy Information Administration reported recently that California accounts for nearly all renewable …
New rules unveiled by the Biden administration target oiland gas operators who lease public lands. The administration called them a move to “ensure fair return to tapayers because they increase the costs for the oil and gas industry reported Fox News. The Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management unveiled the …
As the Arkansas Business reported recently, southern Arkansas is getting growing attention—thanks to the nation’s lithium boom. Lithium is the mineral needed for mass production of batteries needed to power the electric vehicle fleet so widely promoted by the Biden administration. South Arkansas gets national notice in The Wall Street Journal this morning as the possible epicenter for …
Crude oil prices recorded gains on Thursday, as did most Oklahoma energy stocks with some seeing 4% boosts for the day. The increase in crude oil prices came about because of lower U.S. crude inventories, plus strong crude imports by China. The August contract for West Texas Intermediate crude expired on Thursday where WTI gained …
Oklahoma State University and Northern Oklaoma College are among the 32 college and university teams selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2024 Collegiate Wind Competition (CWC) during the first half of the 2023–2024 school year. The CWC, which first launched in 2014, helps prepare the future wind energy workforce by inviting college students from …
Devon Energy volunteers partnered recently with Buffalo Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Wyoming Conservation Corps (WCC) to conserve and restore public lands in Wyoming. Thirty volunteers visited the former Juniper Draw Cold Bed Methane (CBM) Field to plug groundwater monitoring wells, clean up trash and pieces of flume equipment used for …
Texas Congressman Chip Roy is taking a cue from those who sought and carried out some actual defunding of police forces around the country. But he’s not targeting police. The Republican Representative introduced legislation to defund climate envoy John Kerry’s office at the State Department. And he received the support of 26 other Republicans in …