Based on data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a new study contends Wyoming is the most dangerous state for truckers in the nation. Oklahoma is ranked 20th according to transportation services Simplex. Wyoming proves to be the most dangerous state for truck drivers, with 33 of the state’s 174 fatal vehicle crashes …
Apex Clean Energy to develop energy storage sites in Texas
Apex Clean Energy, the company known in Oklahoma for its wind farm developments over the past several years, now plans to build two battery storage systems in Texas. The projects will add nearly 200 MG of energy to the state’s ERCOT grid by using the Centipede Platform and StackOS battery management system provided by …
Oil recovery finished at Keystone pipeline leak in Kansas
TC Energy says it has completed the recovery of the several thousand barrels of crude oil that leaked from the Keystone pipeline in northern Kansas. The Canadian Company issued a recent statement saying its work at the site of the Mill Creek spill near Washington, Kansas will continue into the third quarter, but the …
Researcher contends electric vehicles will only increase vehicle-related emissions
A researcher with the Manhattan Institute, Mark P. Mills, contends electric vehicles aren’t what the Biden administration and others claim about them being emission free…instead, he says they will only increase global vehicle-related emissions. What? It’s what he recently wrote, contending the federal government is pouring untold millions, maybe billions into an vehicles that …
Death of Tesla plant worker investigated
The 2021 death of a 57-year old worker on the Tesla construction site southeast of Austin was one of more than 1,300 construction deaths in the state of Texas in a 10-year period. An investigation by the Texas Observer found Texas did not report the death as required by Travis County as part of …
Biden to begin refilling nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve
At the same hearing where GOP leaders criticized Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Democrats for their “rush-to-green policies making energy unaffordable, Granholm announced the government will start refilling the drained Strategic Petroleum Reserve beginning as early as next month. It was during a recent U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing where Granholm explained …
Fast energy reads
** Politico will host its first-ever Energy Summit on Thursday. The event features conversations with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, White House National Climate Adviser Ali Zaidi and Jigar Shah, director of the DOE’s Loan Programs Office. ** The nation’s coal-fired power plant fleet is projected to decline by more than half by 2050, according to the U.S. Energy …
Americans are keeping cars longer
Despite the Biden administration’s push for Americans to switch from gas to electric vehicles, car owners are balking and instead are keeping their cars longer according to a new study. The average age of U.S. cars and light trucks this year climbed to a record 12.5 years, reflecting the impact of supply constraints on …
ONEOK to move into oil transportation in $18 billion acquisition of Magellan Midstream
ONEOK announced a more than $18 billion deal to acquire Tulsa-based Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. Magellan will be merged into a newly created 100% wholly-owned subsidiary of ONEOK and allows for the firm to move from its natural gas focused into transporting refined products and oil. In the merger agreement, valued at $18.8 billion, …
Dallas Fed President meets with Midland-Odessa leaders to talk about boom-bust cycles
Dallas Fed President Lorie K. Logan met with Midland–Odessa business and community leaders in mid-April to learn about the area’s strengths, challenges and outlook. Midland–Odessa was the fifth stop in the 360° in 365 Listening Tour, as Logan travels through the Eleventh District reaching out to local constituencies so she can represent the district in …